Mass Mailing Disable Tracking
by hugues de keyzer https://github.com/OCA/social , Odoo Community Association (OCA) https://github.com/OCA/social| Availability |
Odoo Online
Odoo.sh
On Premise
|
| Odoo Apps Dependencies |
•
Email Marketing (mass_mailing)
• Contacts (contacts) • Discuss (mail) |
| Lines of code | 121 |
| Technical Name |
mass_mailing_disable_tracking |
| License | AGPL-3 |
| Website | https://github.com/OCA/social |
Mass Mailing Disable Tracking
This module allows to disable open and link click tracking in mass mailing messages.
Odoo Mass Mailing (aka Email Marketing) includes 2 ways of tracking (spying on, invade the privacy of) the recipients:
- Tracking the “opening” of the email message by including a 1-pixel transparent GIF image at the bottom of the message, using a URL to the Odoo instance that uniquely identifies that message sent to that recipient. As soon as the recipient displays the remote images of the message, their email client downloads the tracking image and the Odoo instance knows that that particular recipient opened that particular message.
- Tracking the “clicks” on the links included in the message by converting all links of the message to a tracking URL to the Odoo instance. As soon as the recipient clicks one of those links, their browser will make a request to the Odoo instance, which will record that click on that particular link for that particular recipient before redirecting the browser to the original link address.
This module allows to disable both of these mechanisms by preventing the original email message to be modified by Odoo to include these tracking mechanisms.
Another issue that link click tracking causes is that recipients are unable to inspect the links: they cannot know on which website they will land before clicking on them. This, and the fact that they are tracked, can cause some recipients to not click the links, making the mass mailing actually less effective.
Statistics can be useful, but respecting your recipients’ privacy is important.
Table of contents
Usage
By default, just by installing this module, open and link click tracking is disabled for new mass mailings.
It is still possible to enable each one separately by going to Settings > Email Marketing and checking the corresponding checkboxes.
Note
This module is incompatible with the mail_tracking module.
Bug Tracker
Bugs are tracked on GitHub Issues. In case of trouble, please check there if your issue has already been reported. If you spotted it first, help us to smash it by providing a detailed and welcomed feedback.
Do not contact contributors directly about support or help with technical issues.
Credits
Authors
- hugues de keyzer
Contributors
- hugues de keyzer
Maintainers
This module is maintained by the OCA.
OCA, or the Odoo Community Association, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of Odoo features and promote its widespread use.
Current maintainer:
This module is part of the OCA/social project on GitHub.
You are welcome to contribute. To learn how please visit https://odoo-community.org/page/Contribute.
Please log in to comment on this module