Wiki/Test Odoo Mail Flow.md

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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