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Odoo 14 Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Parth Gajjar, Alexandre Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis
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Book Image

Odoo 14 Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

5 (2)
By: Parth Gajjar, Alexandre Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

With its latest iteration, the powerful Odoo framework released a wide variety of features for rapid application development. This updated Odoo development cookbook will help you explore the new features in Odoo 14 and learn how to use them to develop Odoo applications from scratch. You'll learn about the new website concepts in Odoo 14 and get a glimpse of Odoo's new web-client framework, the Odoo Web Library (OWL). Once you've completed the installation, you'll begin to explore the Odoo framework with real-world examples. You'll then create a new Odoo module from the ground up and progress to advanced framework concepts. You'll also learn how to modify existing applications, including Point of Sale (POS) applications. This book isn't just limited to backend development; you'll discover advanced JavaScript recipes for creating new views and widgets. As you progress, you'll learn about website development and become a quality Odoo developer by studying performance optimization, debugging, and automated testing. Finally, you'll delve into advanced concepts such as multi-website, In-App Purchasing (IAP), Odoo.sh, the IoT Box, and security. By the end of the book, you'll have all the knowledge you need to build impressive Odoo applications and you'll be well versed in development best practices that will come in handy when working with the Odoo framework.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Configuring incoming and outgoing email servers

Before you start sending and receiving emails in Odoo, you will need to configure the incoming and outgoing email servers. In this recipe, you will learn how to configure email servers in Odoo.

Getting ready

There is no development needed for this recipe, but you will require email server information, such as the server URL, port, server type, username, and password. We will use this information to configure the email servers.

Note

If you are using Odoo Online or Odoo.sh, you do not need to configure the email servers. You can send and receive emails without any complex configurations on those platforms. This recipe is for on-premises Odoo instances.

How to do it...

Configuring incoming and outgoing email servers involves a few steps that are common to the processes for incoming and outgoing servers and a few steps that are unique to each kind of server. So, first we will see the common configuration steps, and then...