"Accounts" Address Book is not used for auto-completion of email addresses
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Since Sep 16, 2025.
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Description
Steps to reproduce
All internal Nextcloud users are held in an address book called "Accounts". Nextcloud Mail is not querying this "auto created" Accounts Address Group and therefor will not auto-complete the email address for any colleague on the system
1.Open Nextcloud Mail
2.Create a new Email
3.In the To: field enter the name of a colleague that has an account on Nextcloud but that you have never written an email to before in Nextcloud Mail
Expected behavior
To include the "Accounts" Address Book in the search for known contacts and as a result offer me matching records and to auto-fill the To/CC/BCC fields once selected
Actual behavior
All Address Books are searched but not the automatically created "Accounts" Address Book
Mail app version
5.4.0
Nextcloud version
31.0.7
Mailserver or service
Dovecot
Operating system
Debian
PHP engine version
None
Nextcloud memory caching
No response
Web server
None
Database
None
Additional info
This issue has also been logged in the Contacts repository as I am not sure if the issue is originating from the contacts App or if the mail app is not querying the "Accounts" address book.
https://github.com/nextcloud/contacts/issues/4705
The same issue seems to also be present in the calendars repository as the calendar does not show Birthday Dates for contacts in the "Accounts" address book.
https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar/issues/6764
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