Test Odoo Mail Flow

This document explains how to setup the Odoo development environment to test the Odoo mail communication.

Prepare

Get access credentials for the external mailbox test@mint-system.ch
Initialize the Odoo db
Activate the external mail servers and set mail domain to mint-system.ch
Configure an outgoing and incoming mail server using the test@mint-system.ch credentials
Set catchall alias to test
Set the default sender address to test@mint-system.ch

Send

Go to contacts and create an entry with a private mail address that you have access to, f.g. contact@janikvonrotz.ch
Make sure the follower list is empty
Use the send message tab to send a message with content ping
Check the follower list in the chatter
You should receive the message as mail in your private mail account

Reply

Reply to the received mail
Make sure the receiver is the catchall alias address
Send the mail with content pong

Fetch

Go to the incoming mail server in Odoo
Force the fetching and processing of mails from the mailbox
Open the contact with the private address
Check if the mail reply is in the chatter

Notify

Check the follower list in the chatter
Make sure that the reply resulted in a notification to the followers
The notification message to the author of the ping message should result in an error