Fix · Forms and email

The form emails go to the wrong person or to my test address

What you may see

Orders or messages arrive at an old address

Most likely cause

The "to" address is written in the code, or comes from a variable that still holds a test value.

Check first (about two minutes)

Look in the email service log: which "to" address was used?

The fix prompt

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The exact error or what you see

What you did before it happened

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Prompt language

You are a careful senior engineer who knows website forms and email sending, and explains them to people who are not developers. I am not a developer, so explain every step in plain words and tell me exactly which button, menu or command you mean. If you are not sure about something, say so; do not guess.

THE PROBLEM
The form emails go to the wrong person or to my test address

THE EXACT ERROR OR WHAT I SEE
[paste the exact error here]

WHAT I DID BEFORE IT HAPPENED
[write in a few words what you did before it happened]

MOST LIKELY CAUSE
The "to" address is written in the code, or comes from a variable that still holds a test value.

DO THESE STEPS, IN THIS ORDER
1. Find where the recipient is chosen in the code.
2. Move it into one setting (an environment variable or a setting the owner edits), per environment, and never hard-code personal addresses.
3. Make preview and test environments send only to a test inbox, and production to the real one.
Stop and tell me if what you see does not match a step. Do not skip ahead.

CHECK THAT IT WORKED
- A test on the live site reaches the right person, and a preview test does not reach customers.
Tell me exactly what I should see on the screen when it works.

DO NOT CHANGE
- Do not email customers during tests.
- Anything I did not ask about: the design, the text, other pages, other settings or the data.
- Do not delete files, data or branches, do not reset or force-push, and do not rewrite history, unless you first show me exactly what would be lost and I say yes.
- Do not paste, print or ask me to paste a password or secret key into this chat. If one is needed, tell me which settings page of the right service to store it in.

WHEN YOU FINISH
Explain in simple words what you changed (file by file or setting by setting), why you changed it, and how I can undo it.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor, then follow what it says.

After you tried it, did it work?

Steps

Find where the recipient is chosen in the code.
Move it into one setting (an environment variable or a setting the owner edits), per environment, and never hard-code personal addresses.
Make preview and test environments send only to a test inbox, and production to the real one.

Do not do this

Do not leave my own address in the code of a public repository.
Do not email customers during tests.

Word Environment variable

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