So I had a crazy thing happen to me this weekend, and I was racking my brains trying to figure it out. I thought I’d share here for the benefit of future travellers, including myself. Perhaps there is a UX improvement suggestion in here too. I’ll also post this to the nextcloud discourse site.
I used sync jobs to consolidate a bunch of mailboxes from another mail server into sub-mailboxes in my main account hosted on mailcow. In the end this worked out very well and I am super satisfied with the result. But not before some bizarre failed attempts! The problem is that the nextcloud passwords firefox extension was prefilling the username and password fields on the sync job setup page. I would put everything in correctly, but it would save with my mailcow account username and password instead, which happened to be the same as the username and password on the old server. Then when the sync ran it would sync a copy of my own mailbox into the sub-mailbox. Only when I deleted the extension did it save the username and password correctly.
Bizarre, right?
I am not sure what the fix is here but it could probably be done by changing the username and password field labels on the sync setup page to something that doesn’t get picked up by the password manager.
