Flask Red Mail: Email sending for Flask¶
Flask Red Mail is a Flask extension for Red Mail. Red Mail is a powerful email sending library which makes sending emails with attachments, embedded images or templated HTML easy.
It makes easy to:
Send verification emails to users
Create email based forgot password functionality
Create Flask based email news letters
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Installation¶
Install the package:
pip install flask-redmail
Example¶
from flask import Flask
from flask_redmail import RedMail
app = Flask(__name__)
email = RedMail(app)
Then set configurations:
app.config["EMAIL_HOST"] = "localhost"
app.config["EMAIL_PORT"] = 0
app.config["EMAIL_SENDER"] = "no-reply@example.com"
Then you may send emails:
@app.route("/send-email")
def send_email():
email.send(
subject="Verify email",
receivers=["you@example.com"],
html="""
<h1>Hi,</h1>
<p>
this is an example.
</p>
"""
)
