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Users that are already logged in can not access polls recieved by mail #4975
Description
⚠️ This issue respects the following points: ⚠️
- This is a bug, not a question or a configuration/webserver/proxy issue.
- This issue is not already reported on Github (I've searched it).
- I agree to follow Nextcloud's Code of Conduct.
What went wrong, what did you observe?
I created a poll for many Nextcloud users and used a list of mail addresses to invite them. In fact the mail addresses are the same that are used to create every individual Nextcloud account. Unfortunately when a already logged in user tries to open the poll with his personal link received by mail Nextcloud Forms shows a error 404. If a user opens a private tab and pastes the url / logs off before trying to open the link the user sees the Form.
What did you expect, how polls should behave instead?
In my opinion a user that is logged in should always be able to open these types personal links (if the user is in possession of this "secret" this should be enough to grant him access to the poll).
What steps does it need to replay this bug?
- create a poll
- invite a user by mail but do not choose the Nextcloud user. Alternatively send the mail to an address the same user has access to (alias).
- log in as user to Nextcloud
- click on the link received by mail
- 404 is shown instead of the poll
Affected polls version
9.1.4
Installation method
Installed/updated from the appstore (Apps section of your site)
Installation type
Updated from a much older version (more than one major version)
Can you rule out that any extension you use is involved in the issue?
- I have checked all browser extension
Which browser did you use, when experiencing the bug?
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Chromium/Chromium based (i.e. Edge)
- Safari
- Other/Don't know
Other browser
No response
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Additional client environment information
No response
NC version
Nextcloud 33 (Hub 26 Winter)
Other Nextcloud version
No response
PHP engine version
PHP 8.3
Other PHP version
No response
Database engine
MariaDB
Database Engine version or other Database
No response
Which user-backends are you using?
- Default user-backend (database)
- LDAP/ Active Directory
- SSO - SAML
- Other/Don't know
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Additional environment informations
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Configuration report
List of activated Apps
Nextcloud Signing status
Additional Information
Already tried to rebuild the db as described in #4877
Activity
dartcafe commentedon Aug 25, 2026
Update to latest version.
dartcafe commentedon Aug 25, 2026
Reading your post again:
No. Mail invitations are personal external invitations. There is no mapping between an email address and an internal user.
So this is no bug. Of course an enhancement could be considered. Feel free to add one.
github-actions commentedon Sep 25, 2026
This thread has been automatically locked since there has not been any recent activity after it was closed. Please open a new issue for related bugs.