How to send emails while using Python Flask fully asynchronously ?

Introduction

Sending emails is one of the important work of Flask micro web framework. Now a days people are using the old and unmaintained module Flask-Mail to send emails. Flask-Mail is totally dead now. This is time to shift or migrate to Flask-Mailing module to send emails fully asynchronously(The new Flask-2.0 has the asynchronous support). Flask-Mailing module internally using the aiosmtplib lib to provide the asynchronous SMTP connection.

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Github Repo: https://github.com/marktennyson/flask-mailing 🔱

Official Documentation: https://marktennyson.github.io/flask-mailing/ 🔶

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Key features of the Flask-Mailing module:

• ➿ Fully asynchronous support for email sending.
• 📤 sending emails with either with Flask or using asyncio module.
• ⚜️ Able to perform any TLS of SSL based encryption.
• ⚔️ sending files either from form-data or files from server.
• 🗞️ Using Jinja2 HTML Templates.
• 🩹 email utils (utility allows you to check temporary email addresses, you can block any email or domain).
• 🧲 email utils has two available classes DefaultChecker and WhoIsXmlApi.

More information will be available at the Getting-Started section. 😀

❤️ Configure Flask-Mailing with a simple Flask application:

• 👋 install or update the Flask-Mailing module on your machine from PYPI using PIP

pip install -U flask-mailing

• 🧛‍♀️ Create a simple flask application, like this:

from flask import Flask

app= Flask(__name__)

@app.route("/")
def index():
    return "hello from Pluto."

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(debug=True)

• ⛹️‍♀️ Now import the Mail and Message class from flask-mailing and set the app's default config variable:

from flask_mailing import Mail, Message

app.config['MAIL_USERNAME'] = "[e-mail]"
app.config['MAIL_PASSWORD'] = "world_top_secret_password"
app.config['MAIL_PORT'] = 587
app.config['MAIL_SERVER'] = "your-email-server.com"
app.config['MAIL_TLS'] = True
app.config['MAIL_SSL'] = False

mail = Mail(app)

• 🏋️‍♀️ Now configure a route to initialize the Message class to create a message instance.

@app.get("/email")
async def simple_send():

    message = Message(
        subject="Flask-Mailing module",
        recipients=["[e-mail]"],
        body="This is the basic email body",
        )
    await mail.send_message(message)
    return jsonify(status_code=200, content={"message": "email has been sent"})

• 🐻 Here is the complete example for better understanding of the working procedure:

from flask import Flask, jsonify
from flask_mailing import Mail, Message

mail = Mail()

def create_app():
    app = Flask(__name__)


    app.config['MAIL_USERNAME'] = "[e-mail]"
    app.config['MAIL_PASSWORD'] = "world_top_secret_password"
    app.config['MAIL_PORT'] = 587
    app.config['MAIL_SERVER'] = "your-email-server.com"
    app.config['MAIL_TLS'] = True
    app.config['MAIL_SSL'] = False
    mail.init_app(app)

    return app

#send a simple email using flask_mailing module.

app = create_app()

@app.get("/email")
async def simple_send():

    message = Message(
        subject="Flask-Mailing module",
        recipients=["[e-mail]"],
        body="This is the basic email body",
        )


    await mail.send_message(message)
    return jsonify(status_code=200, content={"message": "email has been sent"})

• 🐼 For more example plese click here

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Special Note 🔴

If you would like to use Django's email implementation, you should probably go with waynerv's Flask-Mailman package.

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Comments

[vivek gupta]

I Tried to use flask_email to send otp
and provided configuration as:
MAIL_SERVER = "smtp.gmail.com"
MAIL_PORT = "465"
MAIL_USERNAME = "[e-mail]"
MAIL_PASSWORD = "dummypassword"

I am facing issues where the smtp server is able to send email to @gmail and @edu accounts without any errors. But I cannot see email in my edu account from [e-mail].

I cannot think about what is wrong or what needs to be done.
can somebody please help?