Enable Collabora supported file type mail attachments directly from Nextcloud Mail

Hi guys,

so far in Nextcloud Mail we cannot open an attachment like XLSX, DOCX or any other format that is supported by Collabora directly. This is an open issue for more than 3 years and the workaround to first store the attachment to a Nextcloud folder and then open it from there is a big productivity killer and not on par with other mail clients.

As Christoph Wurst in the Github thread Ability to directly view further attachments from email · Issue #5988 · nextcloud/mail · GitHub mentions this is mainly because the mail attachment file at this initial mail viewing stage is not stored in the Nextcloud File System and Collabora Online can therefore not access it

Could you collaborate with Nextcloud on this and get this fixed please? Maybe you both can get together at the upcoming developer conference and put some heads together how to fix this. I am sure a solution can be found.

Thank you so much !

Thorsten

Hi Thorsten,

Yes, totally agree this would be a great improvement. We’re happy to work with the Nextcloud Mail team and will raise this at the developer conference to explore a solution together. Thanks for bringing it up!

Thanks
Darshan