This behavious is actually generating many issues. On my side, i have changed the file mail_thread.py from this :

    # automatically subscribe recipients if asked to
    if context.get('mail_post_autofollow') and thread_id and partner_ids:
        partner_to_subscribe = partner_ids
        if context.get('mail_post_autofollow_partner_ids'):
            partner_to_subscribe = filter(lambda item: item in context.get('mail_post_autofollow_partner_ids'), partner_ids)
        self.message_subscribe(cr, uid, [thread_id], list(partner_to_subscribe), context=context)

to this :

        # automatically subscribe recipients if asked to
    #if context.get('mail_post_autofollow') and thread_id and partner_ids:
    #    partner_to_subscribe = partner_ids
    #    if context.get('mail_post_autofollow_partner_ids'):
    #        partner_to_subscribe = filter(lambda item: item in context.get('mail_post_autofollow_partner_ids'), partner_ids)
    #    self.message_subscribe(cr, uid, [thread_id], list(partner_to_subscribe), context=context)

Now adding automatically follower is disabled.

++

Julien

Hello everyone!

I am here with an answer.

I had same problem on Odoo 14 and strugled a lot to deal with it.

What woked for me was this:

Basicaly, all models that inherrit mail.thread have access to this method so by overriding it you can add custom behaviour after mesage was posted.

I hope this helps someone.

def _message_post_after_hook(self, message, msg_vals):
    res = super(CrmLead, self)._message_post_after_hook(message, msg_vals)
    for this in self:
        for follower in this.message_follower_ids:
            follower.unlink()
    return res

Is there a way to achieve this within Odoo 8 without hacking into the code and thus making the change stable and persistent? I cannot think of a situation where I would want the Customer or "Patner" to be privy to our internal communications by default. Whoever thought that this was a good idea is mistaken.

Ray buy "check out" do you mean mute these functions? or study them?

Something like this would work?

from openerp.osv import osv, fields

class mail_followers(osv.Model):
    _inherit = 'mail.followers'
    def get_partners_to_email(self, cr, uid, ids, message, context=None):
        pass


class mail_thread(osv.AbstractModel):
    _inherit = 'mail.thread'
     def message_get_suggested_recipients(self, cr, uid, ids, context=None):
        pass


class crm_lead(format_address, osv.osv):
    _inherit = 'crm.lead'
    def message_get_suggested_recipients(self, cr, uid, ids, context=None):
        pass


class project_issue(osv.Model):
    _inherit = "project.issue"
    def message_get_suggested_recipients(self, cr, uid, ids, context=None):
        pass

For 8.0 Community Users the easiest way to achieve this behavior is by using the edit suggested by Julien Rey above:

Locate Mail_thread.py @ C:\Program Files (x86)\Odoo 8.0\server\openerp\addons\mail.

Locate this code (Line 1677):

 # automatically subscribe recipients if asked to
    if context.get('mail_post_autofollow') and thread_id and partner_ids:
        partner_to_subscribe = partner_ids
        if context.get('mail_post_autofollow_partner_ids'):
            partner_to_subscribe = filter(lambda item: item in context.get('mail_post_autofollow_partner_ids'), partner_ids)
        self.message_subscribe(cr, uid, [thread_id], list(partner_to_subscribe), context=context)

Then comment out the 5 lines beneath so it looks like this:

       # automatically subscribe recipients if asked to
    #if context.get('mail_post_autofollow') and thread_id and partner_ids:
    #    partner_to_subscribe = partner_ids
    #    if context.get('mail_post_autofollow_partner_ids'):
    #        partner_to_subscribe = filter(lambda item: item in context.get('mail_post_autofollow_partner_ids'), partner_ids)
    #    self.message_subscribe(cr, uid, [thread_id], list(partner_to_subscribe), context=context)

In addition to this change, the module made by Smile, ( https://apps.openerp.com/apps/modules/8.0/smile_followers/ ), prevents the creators of events like quotes being added to the 'Followers' List.

Have a look at this module: https://apps.odoo.com/apps/modules/9.0/compoze_no_auto_subscribe/. It may be really comfortable to use to that purposes

For Sale order i get to know that in action_button_confirm method code is there to manually add customer as a follower in portal_sale module (portal_sale.py using message_subscribe method). if you do not want to add customer as a follower you can comment this code or override that method in your module to avoid this functionality.

It's a long time since you guys started this topic.

Is any module removing followers available or the only way is dig in the code ?

Check out these functions:

get_partners_to_notify - in /addons/mail/mail_followers.py

message_get_suggested_recipients - in /addons/mail/mail_thread.py

message_get_suggested_recipients - in /addons/crm/crm_lead.py

message_get_suggested_recipients - in /addons/project_issue/project_issue.py

Michael, thanks for your module. We're going to test it and we'll give feedback soon.