Problems with Contact form

Couple of days ago I had a problem with contact form not working in Magento Professional 1.9.0.0. Magento was throwing error “Unable to submit your request. Please, try again later” after submitting form. Of course all requested fields was filled. Here I will explain what needs to be done if you have same problems.

First thing, which would probably solve the problem, was to change following function of app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Email/Template.php

  public function setReplyTo($email)
    {
        $this->getMail()->addHeader('Reply-To', $email);
        return $this;
    }

to

public function setReplyTo($email)
    {
        $this->getMail()->setReplyTo($email);
        return $this;
    }

You can override this function in a dirty way by creating same folder hierarchy to Template.php file in your app/code/local or creating separate module (Magento way which will avoid possible overwriting when upgrading to newer version of Magento)

Additional problem solving steps are:

1. Create new CMS page and call form.phtml from there. You can do this by following:
   • Create new CMS page
   • URL key value: contacts
   • Content value:
     < !– CONTACT FORM –>
     {{block type=’core/template’ name=’contactForm’ template=’contacts/form.phtml’}}
     < !– END OF CONTACT FORM –>
     P.S. Watch to have single quotes!
2. Check if form action attribute is set right. Sometimes this can generate a problem. Action attribute value should point to: http://yourdomain.com/contacts/index/post/. Originally value for action attribute is

   <?php echo $this->getFormAction(); ?>

   but you can try it to set it manually to “http://yourdomain.com/contacts/index/post/”

3. Check if you maybe missed configuration settings for enabling email sending functionalities.
4. Try to change “Sending emails to” to some other email which do not have same email domain as your Magento website. Some hosts can produce problem if “Sending from” email is from same host provider as the “Sending to” email.
5. Create new transaction email for Contact form transactional email and name it differently than default.

Hope this helps someone!