site/backend/app/email.py

from threading import Thread
from flask import render_template
from flask_mail import Message
from app import mail, app

def send_async_email(app, msg):
    with app.app_context():
        mail.send(msg)

def send_email(subject, sender, recipients, text_body, html_body):
    msg = Message(subject, sender=sender, recipients=recipients)
    msg.body = text_body
    msg.html = html_body
    mail.send(msg)
    # Thread works surprisingly badly behind uwsgi, just let a uwsgi worker do its thing instead.
    #Thread(target=send_async_email, args=(app, msg)).start()

def send_password_reset_email(user):
    token = user.get_reset_password_token()
    hostname = app.config['REAL_HOSTNAME']
    send_email('reset oily password',
               sender=app.config['ADMINS'][0],
               recipients=[user.email],
               text_body=render_template('email/reset_password.txt', hostname=hostname, user=user, token=token),
               html_body=render_template('email/reset_password.html', hostname=hostname, user=user, token=token))