Send Meeting Request by Logged-in User

[Offerel]

Could you please add a feature, that Meeting Invites/Requests are send via the E-Mail Address of the logged in User instead of the System User which is defined by the Admin?

[blizzz]

IIRC it is legally not allowed to send automatic emails in someones name. @georgehrke or is it?

[georgehrke]

I'm not sure if there are legal reasons.
we could use a combination of From and Sender headers, but I think one's server would be listed as spamming pretty fast, when sending emails in the name of different people.

[georgehrke]

What we definitely could do is to add a Reply-To header with the user's email address.

[georgehrke]

@Offerel Can you please describe the problem of the current solution?

[blizzz]

I thought I overheard something like that. Not sure anymore where, when and by whom 🙊

[Offerel]

No Problem, i will look deeper at the evening. I add a Mail Header to this issue, how it should be OK for my needings.

[Offerel]

Ok let me explain a little bit:

As Nextcloud Admin under "Additional Settings" i have entered SMTP Details in the form of "[email protected]" including Credentials etc.

Then, as a normal User, i Log-In via a E-Mail Address for example "[email protected]" in NextCloud, go to the Calendar App and add a New Entry. In this new Event i add some attendees and save the Event.

Now i go to the Inbox of one of these attendees. I see that there is a new Mail. This Mail is a Meeting Invitation. But if i look at the sender, to identify how will meet me, i see not "[email protected]". All what i see is "[email protected]". As a unexperienced User im a little bit nervous, since i don't know somebody with "[email protected]".

It would be better, if the sender is "[email protected]" because i know this person.

[georgehrke]

I checked Google Calendar and applied to your email addresses it sends an email with:

From: [email protected]
Sender: [email protected]
Reply-To: [email protected]

This should also work for us if user and server use the same domain for their mails.

But I suspect that that some servers might reject a mail when From and Sender have different domains. Maybe someone with more insights on email server can answer that. (maybe @LukasReschke 🙈 )

[Offerel]

If a E-Mail is send with both Sender and From Address, i think the Mail is send with "On-Behalf". I have made a test at this moment with Nextcloud and send such a Invite via the current configuration. In this test, the Mail arrives in Inbox of a Outlook 2010 Client with the Sender Address [email protected] as it should. I don't know why, i hadn't expected this. I had the following headers found in the Mail:

Subject: TestInvite
From: [email protected]
Reply-To: Sweet Little User <[email protected]>
To: "User, Name" <[email protected]>

I'm wondering about this. But its OK for me. I don't know why its happen now and not before, but its OK...

[nolens]

@Offerel, I fully support your issue. Just had a similar proposal, see the issue that is referenced above.

[georgehrke]

@nolens Please refrain from commenting when you can't add anything new. Use Github Reactions instead. Thx!

[MorrisJobke]

Duplicate of #2345

See #2345 (comment)

[tuergeist]

I'd like to re-opening the issue.

It would be great if you leave it to the admin to decide how it shall work. I actually use NextClound+Calendar for different domains; in that case it's somehow annoying to have to chose one special email address for everybody (also for users with different domain names).

So, e.g., the NC instance uses [email protected] but some user are from different domains, e.g., [email protected]
That leads to the obvious weird combination of

Subject: TestInvite
From: [email protected]
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: "User, Name" [email protected]

The recipient is asking about the relationship between domain-one.com and mikes-stuff.com as this is not obvious (in every case).

Regards
Christoph

btw. gmail does not show the Reply-To as originator, you can't even see it per default