nextcloud / nextcloud/contacts
Imported contacts cannot be mailed to in groups
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Description
⚠️ This issue respects the following points: ⚠️
- This is a bug, not a question or a configuration/webserver/proxy issue.
- This issue is not already reported on Github (I've searched it).
- Nextcloud Server is up to date. See Maintenance and Release Schedule for supported versions.
- Nextcloud Server is running on 64bit capable CPU, PHP and OS.
- I agree to follow Nextcloud's Code of Conduct.
Bug description
Some imported contacts from Gmail using a .vcf file (which ones i cant tell) dont have an email type set by default, which prevents from sending a group mail to a group within which they are. Nextcloud just refuses to make the "email application choosing" window appear, probably because it cannot read their email adress as such.
Steps to reproduce
- Export Google contacts into a .vcf file
- Import them to Nextcloud from the Contacts pannel
- Some contacts don't have a Email type set by default ("Domicile" "Travail" and "Autres" stand for "Personal" "Work" and "Other"): https://i.imgur.com/XYlD2mP.png
- Create or use an already existing group in which one or several of these contacts will be
- Try sending an email to the whole group through the Contacts UI: https://rimgo.esmailelbob.xyz/IPyq35h.png
- Nothing happens.
Expected behavior
On computer, the web-browser should prompt me with a window asking me for which mail app i want to use, or send me straight to the mail app i chose before if i did so.
Installation method
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Operating system
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PHP engine version
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Web server
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Database engine version
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Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?
None
Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?
None
What user-backends are you using?
- Default user-backend (database)
- LDAP/ Active Directory
- SSO - SAML
- Other
Configuration report
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List of activated Apps
None i'm aware of. Cannot say for sure as i'm not an admin.
Nextcloud Signing status
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Additional info
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the related Contacts issue #3195, then reproduce the Gmail .vcf import and group-mail flow described here. Confirm how imported contacts without an email type are represented and verify that selecting group mail opens the configured mail application for those contacts.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100