Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

First, instantiate the Mail object in our application's configuration, that is, my_app/__init__.py:

from flask_mail import Mail 
 
app.config['MAIL_SERVER'] = 'smtp.gmail.com' 
app.config['MAIL_PORT'] = 587 
app.config['MAIL_USE_TLS'] = True 
app.config['MAIL_USERNAME'] = 'gmail_username' 
app.config['MAIL_PASSWORD'] = 'gmail_password' 
app.config['MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER'] = ('Sender name', 'sender email') 
mail = Mail(app) 

We also need to do some configuration to set up the email server and sender account. The preceding code is a sample configuration for Gmail accounts. Any SMTP server can be set up like this. There are several other options provided; they can be found in the Flask-Mail documentation at https://pythonhosted.org/Flask-Mail ...