from threading import Thread from flask import current_app, render_template from flask_mail import Message from . import mail def send_async_email(app, msg): with app.app_context(): mail.send(msg) def send_email(to, subject, template, **kwargs): subject = '{} {}'.format(current_app.config['OPAQUE_MAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX'], subject) msg = Message(subject, sender=current_app.config['OPAQUE_MAIL_SENDER'], recipients=[to]) msg.body = render_template(template + '.txt.j2', **kwargs) msg.html = render_template(template + '.html.j2', **kwargs) thr = Thread(target=send_async_email, args=[current_app._get_current_object(), msg]) thr.start() return thr