How to create program for sending mail automatically from openerp using python

Question

How to create program for sending mail automatically from openerp using python?

I have created openerp module. I am trying to send mail to a client, when client id is ge

Answer 1

If you want to send an HTML email, the only way I have found is to send an email template via a server action.

Once you have the template created, discover it's template id by viewing the template and seeing what the id parameter is in the URL.

Then create a new server action, set the object to match the template and set the type to python code. Insert the following code:

self.pool.get('email.template').send_mail(
    cr, uid, , context['active_id'],True, context=context)

Replacing with the appropriate template id.

Just explaining some of the other fields

• context['active_id'] gives the current id of the lead/invoice/etc being used to create the template with
• The 5th value True forces the email to be sent immediately rather than adding it to the queue. It would be better to leave as False but due to a bug in version 7, it can lose email addresses when being added to the queue.

You can look in addons/email_template/email_template.py and search for the send_mail function for further information.