Managing the email alias

Email aliasing is a feature in Odoo that is used to create a record through incoming emails. The simplest example of an email alias is sales teams. You just need to send an email to [e-mail], and Odoo will create a new record for crm.lead in the sales team. In this recipe, we will create one email alias to create a hostel student record.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will be using the my_hostel module from the previous recipe, Sending emails using the QWeb template. We will create our email alias with the [e-mail] email address. If you send an email to this email address with the book’s name in the subject, a record is created in the hostel.student model.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to add an email alias for the hostel.student model:

1. Add the email alias data in the my_hostel/data/mail_template.xml file:

   <record id="mail_alias_room_assign" model="mail.alias">
    ...