I think we are trying to do too much with this email inbox right now and while down the road it would be nice to have the option to conduct all business in ERPNext i.e. email also…
I venture a guess that most users will already have a very robust client in play like Outlook or gmail.
I think right now we need to fix the basic email functions that allow current email systems to work with ERPNext, like having split logon for imap and smtp. This was how it was but for some reason was changed with out any documentation or explanation making configuration problematic.
I think that the most important job of a CRM, and I presume the email inbox is an important part of a CRM, is to connect the different communication with contacts an related documents/items so it can be traced back in the future.
One of the most frustrating things I experienced when using a stand alone mail client instead of using an integrated solution, is tracing back all the communications that has been relevant for a certain client, product, project etc.
I hope someone can explain me how to use a external mail client with ERPNext and still be able to trace all communication?
To improve the usability of the Email inbox I would suggest:
Solve the pop and imap errors
Display clearly the contact, and other documents the email is linked to (like the way sales documents are displaying related documents at the top of the form).
Make it possible to links emails to other documents many to many. (it often happens that in one email multiple projects / sales documents / products are discussed)
Only editable body and subject field when your composing an email not when reading.
Be able to group emails belonging to one conversation in a treeview.
Fix the CSS display faults
Be able to make an task, quotation and sales order direct from email.
Be able to easy set an reminder within a certain amount days if there hasn’t be a reply from the contact.
I think that most things shouldn’t be that hard to implement as they already exist for other doctypes, but i could be wrong I’m not an developer after all
Not working for me either, I have tested with my personal POP IMAP Server, and Even with Gmail Server, as @mayar said even I am not able to see the emails.
Apart form that, yes missing css fix is required.
I think the email inbox feature is need to be improve more, and it should act like the email clients, i.e. Thunderbird, Outlook etc, if the imap option is given, it should show the all folders including inbox sent spam other folders.(if I have created any other folder, as a subfolder of inbox).
It should have the separate search box for searching an email.
Good notification system for new incoming email, and if possible the rules for the email.
For me, I would like to do all my e-mail functions inside of ERPNext. So a robust e-mail client inside the system would be great.
As an example, I can’t really see all my communications in ERPNext. For example, under “Sent Items”, I see nothing even though I’ve sent plenty e-mails.
Currently, we’re using Zoho as our e-mail provider.
I’ve just playing around with the email inbox as I’m still wondering if it would be a reasonable option to use on an exclusive email client.
As mentioned by @meisam in his opening post he’s facing the problem that ERPNext doesn’t seem to recognize the sender as a contact (presuming that the email address is already assigned to a contact).
I’m facing this same problem. If I receive an email from an existing contact ERPNext doesn’t seem to recognize and link this. I would suspect that I would be able to find contact details enclosed to the email and more important be able to track this email from the contacts form just as you can with an email you’ve send to the contact.
My question are:
Is this normal behaviour or am I missing something?
Is there any progress on improving/fixing the email inbox?
What would be your workflow when using an external email client like Thunderbird or Outlook?
I do get the inbox well specifically the Opportunity section to be able to correctly map email addresses to contacts. I think this was broken a few months back but working on v9 for me.
In part of the CRM group who also want to work on email handling. Although this was something we discussed I can’t say that anything much has happened so far. Im not a developer so can’t help directly but I have been flagging CRM / email issues in github and raising a few ones that are now fixed.
Although it’s possible to interface with Thunderbird etc it is tricky. I use the Thunderbird redirect add-on to redirect mails I receive into a pickup address for ERPnext. This means that they get logged as Opportunities with the original email sender’s name too. But replying to mails is harder as the reply to headers need to match what ERPNext requires to intercept mails and add to the correct doctype.
Odoo went thru a similar issue. They had some nice Thunderbird and Outlook add-ons to work with Odoo but just found workflow was too clunky to work reliably so these were removed around their v7.
If you wish to help please join the CRM community group as the more the merrier
Thank’s for your reply. Do you mean that if a contact sends you a new email (not a reply), this incoming email is automatically mapped to the contact and shows up in his comments section? This is what I think is normal behavior but I’m unable to get it to work. I’m on version 10.
I’m also facing the same problem as discussed in this topic: Super email user role - #29 by dufani1 But unfortunately it seems that there were no answers on that topic.
After some reading around I’m really wondering what the added benefit of the Inbox is as it doesn’t seem to behave as you would expect from an email client?
As for your question to join the CRM group. I think that there already a dozen of topics and Github issues that have good suggestions and pointing out bugs and other problems. To move forward someone has to start coding, as I’m not a programmer I can’t help with that. I’m more than happy to test new things out but that doesn’t bring us forward at this moment
What’s the status of the Email inBox thing?
I’ve been testing missive app but am looking for a one stop business suite to do my CRM, group inbox, accounts, invoicing etc…
Email inBox would be a really great feature to keep everything in one place.
There’s has been some improvements to CRM contributed by Frappe and Charles Decouit and others These are in V11 on the staging branch, not in V10. The actual inbox hasn’t changed too much but the added items are good.
Ones I can recall include:-
Ability to save a draft email recently added to V11
Improvements in searching for contacts and names shown in composing an email
Ability to add links to meetings / schedule calls etc etc in a calendar
Saving contacts returns you automatically to Opportunity or Customer now
Timeline improvements
Ability to see when an email is opened ie tracking
These are ones I remember there will be a few others. All useful additions.
Please test to report bugs although both beta and demo.erpnext.com don’t allow email usage, not surprisingly.
So some useful new features but not an overhaul more continuous improvements.
That sounds great! I’ve checked out beta.erpnext.com but I couldn’t find a way to save a draft when trying to send an email.
I just opened a Purchase Order and clicked “New Email” I would expect that there would be some “Safe Draft” option in the email dialogue that opened. Could you point me in the right direction of where to find this new future?
Im also in a situation with email. When i receive a email and a issue is created how can you save that specific email into a field in Issue? Im new to ERPNext so i don’t know how the linking works yet. Please any help?
All linked documents like email or comments are available at the end of your document ordered by date.
Open your issue and go at the end of it, you should see your email.
For email it’s best to set it up and play with it to see how it works. You can’t use the demo or beta ERPNext sites to test the email handling so you need to try it yourself to get a good under if it.
The inbox is simply the mechanism to let you know that an issue has been created. You can use various email alerts in addition but it’s always best to try it as is and build on a vanilla install to suit your particular requirements
I understand yes. Practice makes perfect.
However my email is set up and everything its just i don’t know how to get the email body.
Like at the moment it’s saved at the bottom in the timeline. What im trying to accomplish is adding that email to a field so that when i do email alerts i can add the body of that email there in. But this seems to be a difficult task for me. I don’t know where to touch or call so that email body can be stored in a field.
