I did the next steps and they worked perfectly on my computer... however, I don't know why but it's not working on the computer I need to implement this. May be it's going to work for you too.

1. Configuration > Configuration > General Settings, section domain alias, turn it to yours (example: if your address is myaddress@gmail.com, set this to gmail.com).

2. Configuration > Users > Users, select one user (the admin, for example) and go to their Preferences tab. Set their messaging alias to your account alias (example: if your address is myaddress@gnail.com, set this to myaddress).

Note: in this step, if you save and your address turns to myaddress2, it will be because you declared first the incoming mail server and Odoo created an alias for it. You have to delete that alias from Configuration > Email > Aliases. After removing that row, you will be able to save the user with that alias and Odoo won't turn it to myaddress2.

3. Create your incoming mail server. Configuration > Technical > Incoming Mail Servers, create a new one. (Let's put an example with IMAP: set the name: whichever you want, server type: IMAP server, server name: imap@gmail.com -if your address is a google one-, port: 993, SSL/TLS: True, user: myaddress@gmail.com, password: pwd_of_your_account). Click on Test & confirm and it will be configured.

4. Now go to Configuration > Automation > Scheduled Actions, and edit the Fetchmail service row. Set the attributes Interval Number to 1 and Interval Unit to Minutes, to check if there are incoming mails each minute (this way you will see if it works faster).

It worked for me, but now, I can't understand why ithe same steps are't working on other computer... If anyone could give me a hint, it would be very appreciated.

You can check that emails are being picked up (which they must be if they are being marked as read) by going into Settings->Technical->E-mail->Messages. This allows you to view all messages (note that this will be a combination of mail.messages generated from incoming emails and other messages generated by openERP). Note that to do this you will need technical features enabled (https://accounts.openerp.com/forum/Help-1/question/7650/).

Messages can be sent to your user inbox by using email aliases for your users. By default a users alias will be his login (https://accounts.openerp.com/forum/Help-1/question/3069/).

I want to rewrite the way that odoo data notes (mail_message) show outside opportunity, contact but no solution found. anyone have any solution please help me!!!

Hi,

I need my incomming e-mail in the openerp 8 "inbox" for all user like a typical mailbox for a lot of reasons. I can see that a i need to use alias but i don't fully understand, is someone can help me to disociate some possibility founded after a google research.

If i can to what i wanna do with the alias fonction, why some forum talk about the "add record" and "server action" from the incomming server option. Also is every user will be able to view email of each other? cause this will be bad :/

Maybe you need to know that my mail account is on my hosted domain, and my OperERP is on my private server, my domain just point to my private server.

Thanks a lot!

Carl

I have a mail account in google gmail. I want to receive and send reply mail through with in openerp system. How to configure this.. As like mail client....Kindly help me.. Thanks in advance

I just spent a few hours on this.  First no mail was flowing, thought now it seems like things are working (hopefully it will not be too difficult for the customers outside).

Process was:

• setup Catchall Domain  (erp.mydomain.com)

• setup 1 account on domain erp@erp.mydomain.com

• setup incoming and out going servers in Settings / General

• changed the value in Settings/Technical/Paramaters/System Parameters  for mail.catchall.alias to erp  (from catchall)

 This means that the "reply to" address becomes the Odoo Server  and looks ok too.  (erp@erp.mydomain.com)

I find that testing mails generated from ERP and replied to (for instance as a lead) the mail is routing, and I am actually getting the email on the outside to my Inbox, and my "testing other" lead-inbox.

I would imagine there are actions that can break this but so far it looks quite promising for keeping ERP activities within erp.  I am not clear on the changes from 7 to 8, but I did notice the "email alias" for a USER is quite separated from the Partner Email which the USER is associated with.  I expect there is considerable confusion about this but for myself, this has seemed to help.

I did test removing mail.catchall.alias as recommended elsewhere here but I found the SYSTEM then was losing messages  (not verified as yet).  There is a lag in all this.  Maybe 5 minutes for messages to get routed through the system and back out.

Finally, I do recomend fully testing this before going live.  It seems super powerful but conceptually quite dangerous.  Folks really do not like new email addresses showing up.  Not sure that I do either.

My answer for now  (first look)

(Follow UP)

On a different Database I found that user aliases were not enabled until I renamed my email domain alias to something other than the server's domain itself.  Doing so activated the ability to assign email-alias@domain to each user.  Likely was waiting for some entry into the field.  This is important to do even if the MX record for the Odoo Domain is the same Email domain you will be using as you will not get effective use of your users email possiblities with odoo.

This is a complicated overall subject that is not well documented.  Amazing things in the system but somewhat complicated to follow.  Changes between OpenERP 7 and Odoo 8 complicate it as much of the Web References are towards v 7 implementation.