Martin Taylor

An alternative to my suggestion, based on the fact that Stephen’s plugin uses wp_mail, which itself uses PhpMailer.

I’ve now found that it’s possible to set a callback function in PhpMailer. Its ‘action_function’ property can be used to set the name of a function to be called after the email is sent.

I still feel that the ‘pta_member_contact_message_sent’ hook is in slightly the wrong place, but for now at least there’s another way to send an acknowledgement to the submitter.

Since posting this suggestion, I’ve noticed that there is an action hook ‘pta_member_contact_message_sent’ which fires after the message is sent. That could perhaps be used, but the problem is that it’s fired even if the wp_mail function fails.

What we need is for the do_action on this hook to be inside the success condition for wp_mail, or at least in a condition of its own, based on ($sent = true).