from odoo import api, fields, models 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 or r_sudo.model == "mail.channel" and r_sudo.res_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")