Mail: Include Attachments And Images In Forwarded Mail

[thomaskonrad]

Apparently, images and attachments are removed from a mail when forwarding it. It would be great to optionally include attachments when forwarding messages. iOS, for example, asks the user whether or not attachments should be included in the forwarded mail. Outlook includes them automatically.

By the way - great Nextcloud app, I love it a lot!

[ChristophWurst]

By the way - great Nextcloud app, I love it a lot!

I'm glad that you like it 🙌 Btw, you can rate the app at https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/mail ;-)

[thomaskonrad]

Done!

[Detrius]

I would like to push this request again.
It would be nice if attachments would be forwarded automatically, together with the mail body.

(By the way, I also agree that the Nextcloud app is great :)

[szaimen]

Is there any update on this?
I think this is one of the last missing features to be able to use the app productively.
But not only the attachments and images should get forwarded. Also the (HTML-)formatting of the mail that you are answering to or forwarding should be as they are.

[ChristophWurst]

But not only the attachments and images should get forwarded. Also the (HTML-)formatting of the mail that you are answering to or forwarding should be as they are.

That is already the case. Or at least to the degree that our editor is capable of working with the HTML. It will strip any unknown formatting, though.

[szaimen]

@ChristophWurst Why not preserving all html code despite the formatting is known or not?

[ChristophWurst]

How could a WYSIWG editor work with structures it doesn't understand?

[szaimen]

Okay, I understand the problem now, but the thing is that in the current state it seems to be a bug when not preserving all the html formatting. Also it seems to strip a LOT of formatting: sometimes I think it just preserves only the plain text... e.g. tables aren't supported?

Maybe an idea to fix this:
Why not making the content you are answering to or forwarding read only? Then you could preserve the formatting while beeing able to only use the formatting that the editor uses? I don't know if it is just me, but honestly I never change content in the mails that I answering to or forwarding; of course I should be able to see the content of the mails that I am answering to or forwarding while writing the mail draft also to be able to copy content to the draft...

so something like this:

1. click on forwarding or answering
2. the draft view opens where you can write your text; on the buttom is the mail that you are answering to or forwarding in a read only view. when scrolling down, you see the whole mail that you are answering to or forwarding and are able to copy content to the draft view above
3. when clicking on "send mail" or if the draft gets saved, the content that you are answering to or forwarding gets attached to the buttom of the draft/mail. (all html)
4. when opening the draft again, it strips the content that you are answering to or forwarding for editing and show it again in the read only view below... and it gets attached as html again to the mail when saving the draft or sending the mail.

What do you think?

[szaimen]

Better would be of course if the editor would support all html formatting. But this is probably not doable.

Another idea is just disabling the stripping to preserve all (unknown) formatting and show all html code. Then at least another mail app that is able to understand the formatting can show the html code again after sending the mail (or just show the draft).

But stripping all unkown html formatting isn't really the best solution IMO.

[ChristophWurst]

Hey there,

I'd just like to let you know that due to the ongoing issue with Bountysource we're discussing ways to move to a different platform. As it looks right now, Bountysource might claim some of the money that was contributed by the community. We will try our best to prevent that. Historically we – the Nextcloud GmbH employees – simply put the claimed bounties back to other tickets until one was solved by a community member. So the money was always from the community and for the community. We'll therefore move to a better platform and currently don't post any new bounties until this situation is resolved. The current goal is to move/donate the money to Nextcloud include but details will follow in the forum post.

Hope this makes sense. If you have any questions please ask them on the forum. This comment will be copy-pasted to all open issues with bounties.

Christoph and the Mail team

[HLFH]

Besides forum post, see main GitHub discussion about BS here: https://github.com/nextcloud/mail/issues/44#issuecomment-645487878.

[ChristophWurst]

https://github.com/nextcloud/mail/pull/3950 feature is about to land :rocket: