Mail

Antelao relays outgoing mail through a Postfix container configured as a smart host. The container is installed only when an SMTP profile exists; skipping SMTP during setup leaves it out, and server installation still succeeds with a warning.

Configuring

The SMTP profile is part of the server configuration: host, port, credentials and the from address. Set it during server config create, or afterwards on the SMTP page in the console.

Local only

# odoocli server config edit

Test it:

Remote or localagainst prod-1

# odoocli server info --server prod-1

The console's SMTP page has a send-test-message action, which is the fastest check that credentials and the relay actually work.

Requires the Community edition

Sending e-mail through the server's relay: the test message, backup and security notifications, and the licence expiry warning.

Available on Community, Developer, Professional, Provider. Below that the operation is refused and nothing is changed.

What Antelao sends

Mail	When
Test message	When you ask for one
Backup notifications	After scheduled backups, to the configured recipients
Security notifications	On sign-in events worth telling someone about
Fail2Ban notifications	When an address is banned, if recipients are configured
Licence expiry warning	Daily while the licence is inside its warning window

The security notification is never blocked

Reduced without the Community edition

Below Community this is not refused. It runs and does less:

• The sign-in security notification is skipped instead of failing. It runs on the sign-in path, where throwing would lock people out.

The reason is narrow and worth stating: that mail is sent on the sign-in path. If a licence problem made it throw, it would stop people signing in. A missing notification is a much smaller harm than a console nobody can enter, so this one degrades instead of refusing.

The licence expiry warning

Sent daily while the licence is inside its warning window, which is licenseExpiryWarningDays in odoo.json, defaulting to 30 days. Set it to 0 to turn the warning off.

Point the notification recipients at somewhere a human actually reads. An expiring subscription silently stops unattended backups, and this mail is the thing standing between you and finding that out a month later.

Odoo's own mail is separate

This is Antelao's mail, not your instances'. Each Odoo database has its own outgoing mail servers configured inside Odoo, and those are not managed here.

Related

• Maintenance
• Installing a licence