from odoo import api, models, fields class MailMessage(models.Model): _inherit = 'mail.message' sent = fields.Boolean('Sent', compute="_compute_sent", help='Was message sent to someone', store=True) @api.depends('author_id', 'partner_ids') def _compute_sent(self): for r in self: r_sudo = r.sudo() sent = len(r_sudo.partner_ids) > 1 \ or len(r_sudo.partner_ids) == 1 \ and r_sudo.author_id \ and r_sudo.partner_ids[0].id != r_sudo.author_id.id r.sent = sent @api.multi def message_format(self): message_values = super(MailMessage, self).message_format() message_index = {message['id']: message for message in message_values} for item in self: msg = message_index.get(item.id) if msg: msg['sent'] = item.sent return message_values class MailComposeMessage(models.TransientModel): _inherit = 'mail.compose.message' sent = fields.Boolean('Sent', help='dummy field to fix inherit error')