[Feature] Share with any external email (without federation)

[freechelmi]

Sorry , i'm sure someone logged that already but could not find it :

Steps to reproduce

1. Click share on a file
2. enter any email user@domaine.com
3. an error is returned that the federation was not found for domain.com

Expected behaviour

You should be able to quickly share a file with any email address, a public link would be sent to this email address.

Actual behaviour

an error is returned because the domain is not federated.

Server configuration

Operating system:
any

Web server:
any

Database:
any
PHP version:
any
ownCloud version: (see ownCloud admin page)
8.2.0
Updated from an older ownCloud or fresh install:
8.1
List of activated apps:

If you have access to your command line run e.g.:
sudo -u www-data php occ app:list
from within your ownCloud installation folder

Enabled:

• activity: 2.1.3
• bookmarks: 0.4
• calendar: 0.8.0
• contacts: 0.5.0.0
• direct_menu: 0.3
• documents: 0.10.2
• external: 1.2
• files: 1.2.0
• files_locking:
• files_mv: 0.8.1a
• files_pdfviewer: 0.7
• files_sharing: 0.7.0
• files_texteditor: 2.0
• files_trashbin: 0.7.0
• files_versions: 1.1.0
• files_videoviewer: 0.1.3
• firstrunwizard: 1.1
• gallery: 14.2.0
• html5_videoplayer: 1.0
• mail: 0.2.1
• music: 0.3.7
• news: 6.0.6
• notifications: 0.1.0
• ocdownloader: 1.5
• provisioning_api: 0.3.0
• storagecharts2: 2.6.1
• tasks: 0.8
• templateeditor: 0.1
• updater: 0.6
• user_ldap: 0.7.0
  Disabled:
• audios
• chat
• delete_confirmation
• encryption
• files_external
• user_external

The content of config/config.php:

array ( 0 => 'drive.ekimia.fr', ), 'datadirectory' => '/var/www/owncloud/data', 'overwrite.cli.url' => 'https://drive.ekimia.fr:8091', 'dbtype' => 'mysql', 'version' => '8.2.0.12', 'dbname' => 'ocdb', 'dbhost' => 'localhost', 'logtimezone' => 'UTC', 'installed' => true, 'mail_from_address' => 'drive', 'mail_smtpmode' => 'php', 'mail_domain' => 'ekimia.fr', 'loglevel' => 1, 'appstore.experimental.enabled' => true, 'ldapIgnoreNamingRules' => false, 'maintenance' => false, 'theme' => '', 'trashbin_retention_obligation' => 'auto', 'preview_libreoffice_path' => '/usr/bin/libreoffice', );

[nickvergessen]

Well if you click on the "share with link" option, you then can share it via email. I see the intention behind your idea, the problem is that emails and federation IDs can be the same value. How should the server blindly guess what you ment?

cc @jancborchardt for "design is how it works"-stuff

[freechelmi]

I would say :

• Check if domain.com is a federated domaine then use 'federation' way of sharing.
• If not federated, just treat is as a simple email address , and share as public by sending the link by email, warn the user that anyone with the link might be able to read the file.
• Also the autocomplete should look into the user OC contacts.

Any already opened feature close to this ?

Thanks

[nickvergessen]

Also the autocomplete should look into the user OC contacts.

That is already done as of 8.2 or 8.1, can't remember atm.

[schiessle]

That is already done as of 8.2 or 8.1, can't remember atm.

But we only look for federated cloud ids, not for normal emails.
The email field for public link shares should search the address book for email addresses, iirc.

[jancborchardt]

This is already accounted for in Sharing 2.0 proposal #19331

Multiple link shares
Currently only 1 link share is allowed per file. Having multiple makes sense since I might want to share a file with multiple people but not for the same period of time. This could be combined with easily sharing via email so the individual link is automatically sent to the respective person. Individual links can then also be revoked easily based on email/name.

So yes, it should be combined. All the magic like checking for federated cloud ID etc, contact autocompletion should of course be done in the background. I know it’s not easy, but sharing is one of our big selling points so we should do it right.

[freechelmi]

I'm quite new in owncloud.

Do you think we could implement this in a third party app ?

[schiessle]

@freechelmi for ownCloud 9.0 we are working on a new sharing which should be more modular. If you are interested you can read about our plans here #19331

Once this is done we could think about implementing this as a additional "share provider" which could be developed as a separate app. Still a problem would be to decide if a address foo@bar is a email address or a cloud id. If we auto-complete the address/id from the address book we could indicate it, but what happens if it is a complete new app/id? Maybe then the share manager would have to decide? But this would require a lot of knowledge about the share providers within the share manager, probably to much... cc @rullzer

Nevertheless, if you are interested please follow the discussion of sharing 2.0 and even contribute if you like.

[butonic]

@freechelmi you can have a look at https://github.com/butonic/guests ... feedback is welcome.

[jancborchardt]

cc @rullzer regarding the multiple link share / share to email feature.

[PVince81]

guests app: https://marketplace.owncloud.com/apps/guests