Add Expense - Invite Email Isn't Received #697

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1. krokosik

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   issue type on Aug 16, 2026
2. krokosik

   added this to the 2.1.x milestone on Aug 16, 2026
3. espen commented on Sep 19, 2026

   

   espen

   on Sep 19, 2026

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   From Claude:

   Root cause found — this is a wiring bug in src/components/AddExpense/SelectUserOrGroup.tsx.

   Both buttons in that component call the no-email handler:

   const handleAddEmailClickFalse = useCallback(() => onAddEmailClick(false), [onAddEmailClick]);
   // ...
   {enableSendingInvites && (
     <Button ... onClick={handleAddEmailClickFalse}>   // "Send invite" — but passes false
       <SendIcon ... />
       {t('...send_invite')}
     </Button>
   )}
   <Button ... onClick={handleAddEmailClickFalse}>     // "Add to SplitPro" — correctly false

   onAddEmailClick(false) results in inviteFriend being called with sendInviteEmail: false, so sendInviteEmail() in src/server/mailer.ts is never invoked — no send attempt, no error, nothing in the logs. That's why the group flow works (src/components/group/AddMembers.tsx correctly uses onClick={() => onAddEmailClick(true)} for its invite button) while the Add Expense flow silently skips the email.

   Fix: give the invite button a handleAddEmailClickTrue wired to onAddEmailClick(true) (currently at SelectUserOrGroup.tsx:152 on main).

   Verified on a fresh v2.1.5 self-hosted instance: clicking "Send invite" from Add Expense creates the placeholder user but the SMTP transport is never called (confirmed via the mail provider's outbound log — zero send attempts), while sign-in magic links and group-flow invites send fine. Related: #752 would at least have surfaced this if the send path errored, but here the send is never attempted at all.
4. KMKoushik commented on Oct 13, 2026

   

   KMKoushik

   on Oct 13, 2026

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   Thanks for the detailed report, and thanks @espen for tracking down the root cause! The 'Send invite' button in Add Expense was wired to skip the email. This is fixed in #752 (commit 3aabfc2), which also shows an error toast if an invite fails to send. Please update to the next release that includes it, and reopen if you still don't receive invites.

   👍React with 👍1Reacted by Espen Antonsen
5. KMKoushik

   closed this as completedon Oct 13, 2026