I see comments indicating that you can set up odoo to import data from emails to a specific address. I can find no information on which module is required, how to set up the emails odoo will monitor, or how to set up the data parser to import the email content. 

I do not want to use odoo for my website, we have other software solutions for that. I want to use odoo as a crm / for emails / for sms / etc. I want to be able to send over 1. new contacts, and 2. updates on activity from existing contacts.

Any help would be appreciated.