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Directly send the link if already synced with Nextcloud

Open biva opened this issue 7 years ago • 6 comments
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Feature request

Today, if I want to send a document that is already synced on NC, it copies it in the MailAttachment folder, and then sends the link.

It should recognize if the file is already in a folder synchronized by Nextcloud, and only create and send the link, without copying the file in the MailAttachment folder.

biva avatar Apr 09 '18 07:04 biva

I agree that it would be nice to have. We could probably use the methods used by the file conflict dialogue used when uploading files via the browser.

oparoz avatar Apr 09 '18 17:04 oparoz

I don't know how this conflict dialogue works, maybe it's a good idea.

I thought to another method: why not use the information of Nextcloud client (mirall)?

  • Thunderbird knows the path and the name of the attached file
  • Nextcloud client knows which folders and files are synced
  • If you compare both, you can ask Nextcloud client to generate the link

Possible?

biva avatar Apr 09 '18 17:04 biva

@biva: if you already have the Nextcloud client at hand you could also generate the link there and just paste it in Thunderbird. Thats even faster and optionally password protected.

I could imagine that such a mighty feature request within the filelink-addon would be rather complex, slow and prone to errors.

creopard avatar May 10 '18 17:05 creopard

@creopard Yes, this is what I do now, but this represents 7 or 8 clicks, and to add /download at the end of the link :( While moving a file to the message editor is only 2 clicks.

biva avatar May 15 '18 12:05 biva

Hi here, Thunderbird just announced compatibility with WeTransfer: https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2019/05/wetransfer-file-transfer-now-available-in-thunderbird/

It made me think again to this topic. Do you think we could go towards a solution? Thanks!

biva avatar May 09 '19 12:05 biva

I see that it's now possible to "share by mail" (https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/1180) within the desktop app. It's great, but it's not as convenient as a sharing within Thunderbird: indeed, it sends a dedicated email, it's not possible to edit the email before and the link cannot be included in an email I write.

It would be great to have this feature: what do you think?

biva avatar Jan 13 '21 10:01 biva