# Sending emails to specific department for WordPress contact forms {% @supademo/embed demoId="QrM6ME2cWH\_EP2X-JIrQF" url="" %} Let's assume you have multiple departments within your company that handle different inquiries. For instance, you might have a **Sales** department sales @ sign

company.com and a **Product support** department support @ sign

company.com. When a user fills out the form you might ask the user if the inquiry is about sales or support. Based on the selection you can then send it to the corresponding E-mail address. There are multiple ways to accomplish this but the easiest way to do it is to add a dropdown named "department" and adding 2 items like so:

Define each department email address for the dropdown element.

Now you can set the "Send email to:" setting to retrieve the value from the dropdown by calling the **{department}** tag. This will either have the value "sales @ sign

company.com" or "support @ sign

company.com".

Set the dropdown field name tag as your E-mail to header for your Admin email.

The above example works just fine, however it is good practice to not expose an E-mail address directly into the source code of a web page (to prevent spam, because of bots being able to index it). This is where the build in **Secrets** system comes into play. You can configure secrets like below. This will allow you to set the dropdown values to be **{@sales\_email}** and **{@support\_email}** which will not expose the E-mail address in the source code. But by calling **{department}** tag it will replace the underlaying value with the actual E-mail address server side. First go to the "Secrets" tab, and configure your secrets like so:

Define email addresses under secrets for secure use.

After configuring the secrets, you can edit your dropdown and set the values to the secret tags like so:

Define secret tags as dropdown values for the department dropdown.

Demonstration on how to configure this from scratch:

Demonstration on how to define secrets for a dropdown element.