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Question

I\'m exploring flask and attempting to setup a simple web app with secure registration and sign in. I\'m using flask-security to do this. Unfortunately, when I navigate to the s

Answer 1

Alright, so I figured out what the problem was. By default flask-security is set up to send mail as "localhost". My mail provider is Zoho, but I'm just using them as a mail server for a domain I run. My mail settings are such that I can only send mail from certain addresses. Because 'localhost' is not one of these flask-security was not able to connect to Zoho's servers.

So the solution was to add to my config file the line

SECURITY_EMAIL_SENDER = 'valid_email@my_domain.com'

Hopefully this will save someone else some time trying to figure out why flask-security's email isn't working.