Flask-Mail - Sending email asynchronously, based on Flask-Cookiecutter

Question

My flask project is based on Flask-Cookiecutter and I need to send emails asynchronously.

Function for sending email was configured by Miguel’s Tutorial and sending sync

Answer 1

Okay, i found solution for my question i posting it here for others developers:

I create file: email.py with code:

from threading import Thread
from flask import current_app, render_template
from flask_mail import Message
from .extensions import mail
from time import sleep    

def send_async_email(app, msg):
    with app.app_context():
        # block only for testing parallel thread
        for i in range(10, -1, -1):
            sleep(2)
            print('time:', i)
        print('====> sending async')
        mail.send(msg)

def send_email(to, subject, template, **kwargs):
    app = current_app._get_current_object()
    msg = Message(subject, recipients=[to])
    msg.html = render_template('emails/' + template, **kwargs)
    thr = Thread(target=send_async_email, args=[app, msg])
    thr.start()
    return thr

my view.py:

...
from app.email import send_email
...

@blueprint.route('/mailer', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def mailer():
    user = current_user.full_name
    send_email(('name@gmail.com'),
               'New mail', 'test.html',
               user=user)
    return "Mail has been send."

And when i call http://localhost:5000/mailer it starts countdown and after few seconds is mail sent.