Sending to groups [$150 awarded]

[jancborchardt]

Typing a group name into the »to« field should autocomplete from the »Groups« in the Contacts app as well. This would allow you to write emails to your »Sports« or »Work« groups quickly.

cc @aspdye @Toub @virgilekat @ttjaden since you requested that. :)

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[ttjaden]

Thanks @jancborchardt for this news. Maybe you have a little extra-information for me, 'cause I'm confused about the owncloud/nextcloud thing:

1. Will the Mail-App be the same for owncloud and nextcloud?
2. I tested the feature, but in mail 0.5.3 the autocomplete doenst work with the groups from the contacts apps.
   Would be great if you guys really can make this work! :-)

[jancborchardt]

@ttjaden the main contributors to the Mail app (@ChristophWurst is the main maintainer) moved to Nextcloud as the more community-oriented project. Hence we don’t really test on ownCloud anymore and while the app might run there it’s not tested. So we decided to also move/fork the repository.
Same happened btw to the News and Gallery apps as the maintainers moved. And likely the Calendar is going to move soon too.

Regarding the feature, it’s not there yet. This is just an issue tracking the request. :) Also this is a community project so any contribution is welcome! 🚀

[Ecphrasis]

Any news of this missing feature ? ;) Actually, rainloop and Mail don't allow to send mails to a group and it's a very missing feature...

[lafrech]

I'm looking for a collaborative work platform and I'm thinking of using NextCloud. AFAIK, there is no support for mailing lists, already.

The "send to group" feature could provide that if it actually sent to sports@groups.my_nextcloud.tld rather than explicitly expanding to the group members.

For a complete mailing list support, it should also be able to receive e-mails to sports@groups.my_nextcloud.tld from the outside and redirect them.

I'm not sure what the best strategy would be. Maybe mailing lists should be a separate Nextcould app. And maybe it would be better to interface an existing solution like Mailman than reinventing the wheel.

Sorry if I'm off-topic. I thought this feature request might arise at some point, so rather mention it before the "sending to groups" feature reaches an advanced conception stage.

[jancborchardt]

So @Ivansss @nickvergessen @schiessle @LukasReschke who of you implemented this in the Spreed video calls app? :) Basically here it would only be:

• adding the contact groups to the autocomplete dropdown
• populating the »to« (or »cc« field, depending on where the group name was typed) with all people from that group

[alexanderdd]

yep, missing this feature too.
Let's put some bounty on this ;D

[nickvergessen]

Currently we ping the Sharees endpoint:
https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/blob/master/js/app.js#L42-L111

That returns users, groups and (maybe for a future feature) circles.
The actual work to get their email addresses has to be done manually.

[alexanderdd]

I miss this feature every day =(
It has been requested a year ago.

Currently there is no way to send an email to a group. You have to type every member by hand. Kinda defeats the idea of contact groups. I am hoping somebody who knows how to code can put a little energy into this. I would soooo appreciated it ;DD