Nextcloud Circles Calender Invite Emails

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The Basics

  • Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x):
    • 30.0.6.2
  • Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04):
    • Debian
  • Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25):
    • Apache/2.4.62
  • Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2)
    • replace me
  • PHP version (e.g, 8.3):
    • replace me
  • Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No):
    • replace me
  • When did this problem seem to first start?
    • replace me
  • Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.)
    • Manual Docker
  • Are you using CloudfIare, mod_security, or similar? (Yes / No)
    • no

Summary of the issue you are facing:

When sending a calender invitation to a circle/team with external email-addresses (not user accounts), Nextcloud tries to send them to circles+[circle uid]@cloud.example.net, and not the individual accounts. As theres no email server at this domain the email bounces/won’t get sent.

Steps to replicate it (hint: details matter!):

  1. Create a Team with email addresses (not connected to NC-Accounts)
  2. Create a Calender Event and Invite the team
  3. Check you email server log files/bounce logs.

Log entries

Nextcloud

no logs/erros regarding the event

Web Browser

not relevant

Web server / Reverse Proxy

not relevant

Configuration

Nextcloud

The output of occ config:list system or similar is best, but, if not possible, the contents of your config.php file from /path/to/nextcloud is fine (make sure to remove any identifiable information!):

{
    "system": {
        "htaccess.RewriteBase": "\/",
        "filelocking.enabled": true,
        "memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
        "memcache.distributed": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
        "memcache.locking": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
        "redis": {
            "host": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
            "port": 7963,
            "timeout": 0
        },
        "dbtype": "mysql",
        "dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbtableprefix": "oc_",
        "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mysql.utf8mb4": true,
        "mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
        "mail_sendmailmode": "smtp",
        "mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtpport": "587",
        "mail_smtpauthtype": "PLAIN",
        "mail_smtpauth": 1,
        "mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtpname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtppassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "apps_paths": [
            {
                "path": "\/var\/www\/html\/apps",
                "url": "\/apps",
                "writable": false
            },
            {
                "path": "\/var\/www\/html\/custom_apps",
                "url": "\/custom_apps",
                "writable": true
            }
        ],
        "trusted_domains": [
            "localhost",
            "cloud.example.net"
        ],
        "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "installed": true,
        "loglevel": 0,
        "version": "30.0.6.2",
        "overwrite.cli.url": "https:\/\/cloud.example.net",
        "default_phone_region": "DE",
        "trusted_proxies": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "overwriteprotocol": "https",
        "twofactor_enforced": "false",
        "twofactor_enforced_groups": [],
        "twofactor_enforced_excluded_groups": [],
        "theme": "",
        "app_install_overwrite": [
            "webhooks",
            "calendar",
            "twofactor_webauthn",
            "workflow_ocr",
            "deck",
            "guests",
            "maps",
            "workflow_media_converter",
            "contacts",
            "extract",
            "files_retention",
            "spreed",
            "talk_matterbridge"
        ],
        "trashbin_retention_obligation": "auto,60",
        "memories.exiftool": "\/var\/www\/html\/custom_apps\/memories\/bin-ext\/exiftool-amd64-glibc",
        "enabledPreviewProviders": [
            "OC\\Preview\\PNG",
            "OC\\Preview\\JPEG",
            "OC\\Preview\\GIF",
            "OC\\Preview\\HEIC",
            "OC\\Preview\\BMP",
            "OC\\Preview\\XBitmap",
            "OC\\Preview\\MP3",
            "OC\\Preview\\TXT",
            "OC\\Preview\\MarkDown",
            "OC\\Preview\\Movie"
        ],
        "simpleSignUpLink.shown": false,
        "memories.vod.ffmpeg": "\/usr\/bin\/ffmpeg",
        "memories.vod.ffprobe": "\/usr\/bin\/ffprobe",
        "memories.vod.disable": true,
        "memories.vod.path": "\/var\/www\/html\/custom_apps\/memories\/bin-ext\/go-vod-amd64",
        "maintenance_window_start": 1,
        "maintenance": false,
        "memories.gis_type": 1,
        "memories.db.triggers.fcu": true,
        "updater.release.channel": "stable"
    }
}

Apps

The output of occ app:list (if possible).

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