Use https://github.com/fkantelberg/mail-devel instead of mailhog

[rrebollo]

I was trying to test incoming emails in the development environment and found that there wasn't any option integrated into Doodba. After searching for a while, I came across this OCA Talk: How to Test Emails in Development, which introduced me to mail-dev.

Highlights

• SMTP
• IMAP
• Simple Webmail

With the following modifications to devel.yaml (and proper setup for incoming and outgoing mail servers within the Odoo instance), I was able to perform the testing seamlessly—even alias hooks worked:

smtp:
    extends:
      file: common.yaml
      service: smtpfake
    image: fkantelberg/mail-devel
    command: ["--password", "123456"]
    networks: *public
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:16025:4080"

[rrebollo]

@fkantelberg great work!!! Maybe you can improve docs a little.

[pedrobaeza]

Yeah, interesting, for both devel and demo. Is that Docker image the original one, or a fork?

cc @josep-tecnativa

[chienandalu]

This is so cool!

[fkantelberg]

@rrebollo Thank you.

What information do you need in the documentation? I should really link the docker image and pypi package in the readme for sure. But the linked one is the original

[rrebollo]

@fkantelberg look at fkantelberg/mail-devel#2

[ljmnoonan]

Hello, guys!

I made a setup that allows you to test both outgoing and incoming mail, and does not rely on an IMAP ir_mail_server record. It uses the mailgate script instead.
In keeping with the doodba way, it uses a browser based email client (Roundcube) so you don't need to attach something like thunderbird. If there is any interest, I would be glad to work on integrating this into the standard doodba copier template.

I made a quick video about it here

[josep-tecnativa]

Thanks @ljmnoonan ! I'm working on this right now. I will check this out!

[ljmnoonan]

@josep-tecnativa ,
Very nice! I just saw that feature branch. Mailpit is a good improvement on Mailhog.

BTW, about the special python 3 compatible odoo-mailgate3.py file I mention in the video, I discovered that odoo has actually made a version compatible with both python 2 and 3 in d09d8c5, so I backported it and a few other commits that had been made there and opened a PR on odoo. However, I am not really sure if that is the right place to backport. In your experience, should backports like this be opened against odoo or against OCB?

Thank you!