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Mass Mailing Disable Tracking

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Marketing/Email Marketing License: AGPL-3

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.

auto_awesome What this module does

AI-generated from the code · Odoo 16.0

Adds two settings in Odoo Email Marketing to turn off open tracking and link click tracking for mass mailing messages, so recipients are not tracked.

This module gives you two new checkboxes in the Email Marketing settings area of Odoo: "Track Open" and "Track Link Clicks". When you uncheck them, mass mailing messages sent from Odoo no longer include the invisible tracking image that records when a recipient opens the email, and links in the message are no longer converted into tracking links that record clicks.

  • The settings appear inside the Mass Mailing settings block, next to the other campaign options.
  • The choices are stored as system settings, so they apply to all future mass mailings.
  • When open tracking is off, the tracking image is removed from the prepared email body.
  • When link tracking is off, links are left as normal links instead of being shortened or redirected through Odoo.

The module changes how mail.mail prepares outgoing mass mailing messages and how mail.render.mixin shortens links. It only affects messages that belong to a mailing and have tracking records; other emails are untouched. No new menus or reports are added.

Depends on

mass_mailing
Models and fields (2)
  • mail.mail · extends an existing model
  • res.config.settings · extends an existing modelmailing_track_open (Track Open), mailing_track_links (Track Link Clicks)

Text generated by AI (DeepSeek) from reading the Odoo 16.0 code on GitHub; it may contain mistakes, so check the code before deciding. View the code on GitHub

Availability by version

Reviewed: 2026-11-03
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Confirmation status: 1 confirmed, 8 with no information of 9 versions.

terminal Installation and usage

OCA documentation · Odoo 16.0

Usage

Source · Odoo 16.0

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.

This module is incompatible with the mail_tracking module.

No verified information in OCA: Installation, Configuration.

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