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0006202SOGoBackend Calendarpublic2026-05-10 17:50
Reporterralfbergs Assigned To 
PriorityhighSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status newResolutionopen 
Product Version5.12.5 
Summary0006202: Adding participant to calendar invite received from external user causes invite to be sent using their email address as sender
Description

(I'm a mailcow user, so I'm using SOGo as part of that install. I assume that this doesn't change anything with regards to this bug report, though.)

I had a meeting in my calendar that was put in my calendar by receiving an invite from a @gmail.com address. I extended that invite by editing the calendar entry in Thunderbird and adding the additional participant's email address. mailcow created a new invite and sent it to the additional participant, using the @gmail.com email address of the original sender (the organizer of the meeting).

This sender address was used both in the message header (From: header) as well as in the envelope of the email message (Return-Path: header).

This is super dangerous to your mail server's reputation, because your mail server sends from an ip address that is not authorized by the original domain's SPF record (gmail.com in this case), nor is the message DKIM-signed. This is typical "spamming" behavior and can cause your mail server's reputation to degrade, with the consequence that you might suffer from future issues sending "legitimate" email to external recipients.

Steps To Reproduce
  1. Create a meeting invite from Gmail to a mailbox on your mailcow.
  2. Accept the invite.
  3. Edit the invite in Thunderbird (using the CalDAV integration towards mailcow), adding an extra recipient.
  4. Trigger the invite in Thunderbird (causing the mailcow backend to create an email invite to the extra recipient)
  5. Observe that the extra recipient receives an email message created and sent by your mailcow installation as described above, i.e. using a sender email address of the original @gmail.com user.
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ralfbergs

ralfbergs

2026-05-10 17:50

reporter   ~0018455

Relates to the below original report I made towards the mailcow project:

https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/issues/7214

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2026-05-10 17:48 ralfbergs New Issue
2026-05-10 17:50 ralfbergs Note Added: 0018455