Mail: Ability to add signature to all messages [$235 awarded]

[HLFH]

Hi,

Am I wrong or are we not able to add signature to our messages with Nextcloud mail?
See: https://github.com/owncloudarchive/mail/issues/654

Thanks,

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The $235 bounty on this issue has been claimed at Bountysource.

[ChristophWurst]

It's still missing. Wanna help implement it? 😉

[Gomez]

Most of the work is already done: https://github.com/owncloudarchive/mail/pull/1616

[JakubSs]

What about now? its available?

[ChristophWurst]

@JakubSs AFAIK nobody is working on it at the moment, so feel free to dive into the code and help finish this feature ;-)

[JakubSs]

@ChristophWurst I am not so good at it... :D but I am interested... its only thing I miss on this app...

[DoubleMalt]

@ChristophWurst Is there a standard way of moving over a pull request from owncloudarchive/mail to here?

[ChristophWurst]

@ChristophWurst Is there a standard way of moving over a pull request from owncloudarchive/mail to here?

Add both repos as origin. Pull the branch/changes from one repo and push to the other. Something like

git remote add owncloud …
git remote add origin [email protected]:/nextcloud/mail.git
git fetch owncloud
git checkout owncloud/branch -b branch
git push branch nextcloud/branch

[alexanderdd]

Great, looks like a lot of work has already been done. Sorry I dont have the skills to actually carry on =)

[Ninos]

As small suggestion, I recommend moving the mail settings ui to the personal settings area:
/index.php/settings/personal#mail-settings

I'm sure in time there'll be some more options for the mail app...

PS: If there's a nextcloud dev, may the personal settings area can also be splitted into subpages, as already done on admin area (/index.php/settings/personal/mail/).

[alexanderdd]

Oh and it would be awesome if HTML signatures are possible (HTML hasn't been mentioned here yet).
HTML signatures are industry standard these days, and actually very few ways exist to send emails with HTML signatures on mobile devices. So this would be a killer feature.

Thanks for your work everyone!

[jlabegg]

another suggestion, because you can add different email account, you should be able to have signature within the mail account parameters.... one account, one signature?
And sorry, i don't have the skill for coding that. Maybe if you need french translation?
Thank you for your work!

[zamashal]

How far done is this feature? I only know little php, and I am new to github, but if you can guide me on how to help with implementing this feature I would like to start learning and helping right away.

[ChristophWurst]

but if you can guide me on how to help with implementing this feature I would like to start learning and helping right away.

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/13/developer_manual/app/tutorial.html might be a good starting point :)

[accima]

Without this feature many of us will not be able to upgrade to version 14 of nextcloud. How far done is this feature?

[ChristophWurst]

How far done is this feature?

There had been some efforts in developing this in the past, but the code seems outdated, so I'd estimate roughly 0%.

[RuudschMaHinda]

I'll talk to someone in the club I want to implement mail, but can't without signature support. Hoping they can maybe increase the bounty by some. This is a make or break feature for this app to be used in professional use cases.

[omocinteractive]

"professional use cases." This is the only reason we don't use the nextcloud mailer. It's a absolut must-have business feature.

[rullzer]

@RuudschMaHinda @omocinteractive do you have an Enterprise Subscription? Because if so reach out to your account manager and we can see if we can get this prioritized.

[omocinteractive]

@rullzer no, because we are only 2 person and 1900€/year is al lot of money ...

I very good online-mailer with many features (like thunderbird) is https://github.com/jasonmunro/cypht, maybe the developer will support the nextcloud-mailer team. I ask him to integrate the mailer into nextcloud, but he is scared off the nextcloud specifications ...

[RuudschMaHinda]

@rullzer same here. No Enterprise subscription. I am supporting non profit clubs who got to report on every cent they spent. There is no public money allocated to software, let alone maintenance unfortunately. But sometimes there is a bit of surplus. I fear the answer will be a "no" though.

[rullzer]

Valid reasons :)

In that case other ways to try to get this sped up are:

• 💻 Get involved https://github.com/nextcloud/mail#development-setup
• 💸 Donate to the bounty at https://www.bountysource.com/issues/39097796-ability-to-add-signature-to-all-messages

[ann0see]

Like many others said: that's the only feature I miss.

[GottHeit]

Same here. Absolutely necessary in business due to law restrictions. You have to have a signature...

Not into coding aswell, so cannot be any help, sorry. Just want to state that i know companies (beside my own) hat would like to use mail also inside nextcloud but can´t

[esbeeb]

Here's a crazy idea. It's simplicity will astound you.
How about if the end user uploads a plain-text file with exactly the name "sig.txt" and puts it in the root folder of their Nextcloud files, then the Mail app notices the existence of this file, and appends the contents of said sig.txt to the bottom of all new emails (after stripping out potentially malicious characters like "<", ">", "#!", etc).

[esbeeb]

Here's an idea that will incentivize this feature. New installations of the Mail app should create the sig.txt for all existing and new users, if they don't already have one (in their root folders). And inside those default sig.txt files could be a little advertisement for Nextcloud, saying something like "sent from Nextcloud, which is awesome. Check it out at https://nextcloud.com".

The end user gets to change the sig.txt of course, with, say, the Nextcloud "Text editor" app.

[small1]

This has been asked about from my clients. They are not large enough to be able to pay for an enterprise subscription at this point tho. To small.

I pitched in a 100 usd for the bounty. So its now up at 235 usd

[ChristophWurst]

PR is at https://github.com/nextcloud/mail/pull/1657. Please help test and review.