Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

How it works...

To send an email on category creation, we need to make the following changes in my_app/catalog/views.py:

from my_app import mail 
from flask_mail import Message 
 
@catalog.route('/category-create', methods=['GET', 'POST']) 
def create_category(): 
    # ... Create category ... # 
    db.session.commit() 
    message = Message( 
        "New category added", 
        recipients=['[e-mail]'] 
    ) 
    message.body = 'New category "%s" has been created' %        category.name 
    mail.send(message) 
    # ... Rest of the process ... # 

Here, a new email will be sent to the list of recipients from the default sender configuration that we did.