pallets-eco/flask-mail

Flask-Mail adds SMTP mail sending to your Flask applications

Python

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Flask-Mail

Flask-Mail is an extension for Flask that makes it easy to send emails from your application. It simplifies the process of integrating email functionality, allowing you to focus on building great features for your application.

Pallets Community Ecosystem

[!IMPORTANT]
This project is part of the Pallets Community Ecosystem. Pallets is the open source organization that maintains Flask; Pallets-Eco enables community maintenance of related projects. If you are interested in helping maintain this project, please reach out on the Pallets Discord server.

A Simple Example

from flask import Flask
from flask_mail import Mail, Message

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['MAIL_SERVER'] = 'your_mail_server'
app.config['MAIL_PORT'] = 587
app.config['MAIL_USE_TLS'] = True
app.config['MAIL_USE_SSL'] = False
app.config['MAIL_USERNAME'] = 'your_username'
app.config['MAIL_PASSWORD'] = 'your_password'
app.config['MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER'] = 'your_email@example.com'

mail = Mail(app)

@app.route('/')
def send_email():
  msg = Message(
    'Hello',
    recipients=['recipient@example.com'],
    body='This is a test email sent from Flask-Mail!'
  )
  mail.send(msg)
  return 'Email sent succesfully!'
email
flask
flask-mail
pallets
pallets-eco
python
smtp

pallets-eco/flask-mail

Flask-Mail adds SMTP mail sending to your Flask applications

Python

642

126 commits

updated Jun 10, 2026

See the code

README

Flask-Mail

Flask-Mail is an extension for Flask that makes it easy to send emails from your application. It simplifies the process of integrating email functionality, allowing you to focus on building great features for your application.

Pallets Community Ecosystem

[!IMPORTANT]
This project is part of the Pallets Community Ecosystem. Pallets is the open source organization that maintains Flask; Pallets-Eco enables community maintenance of related projects. If you are interested in helping maintain this project, please reach out on the Pallets Discord server.

A Simple Example

from flask import Flask
from flask_mail import Mail, Message

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['MAIL_SERVER'] = 'your_mail_server'
app.config['MAIL_PORT'] = 587
app.config['MAIL_USE_TLS'] = True
app.config['MAIL_USE_SSL'] = False
app.config['MAIL_USERNAME'] = 'your_username'
app.config['MAIL_PASSWORD'] = 'your_password'
app.config['MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER'] = 'your_email@example.com'

mail = Mail(app)

@app.route('/')
def send_email():
  msg = Message(
    'Hello',
    recipients=['recipient@example.com'],
    body='This is a test email sent from Flask-Mail!'
  )
  mail.send(msg)
  return 'Email sent succesfully!'
email
flask
flask-mail
pallets
pallets-eco
python
smtp

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0.10.0 · May 23, 2024

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