I am trying to send a reset password email using flask-mail. The code executes without errors but I didn't receive any email.
I tried the following:
- adding those line to the app.config in the init.py file:
app.config['MAIL_SUPPRESS_SEND'] = False
app.config['MAIL_DEBUG'] = True
app.config['DEBUG'] = True
app.config['MAIL_FAIL_SILENTLY'] = False
app.config['TESTING'] = False
- Changing the (Less secure app access) setting in Gmail to be on.
Here are some lines of my code:
In init.py file:
import os
from flask import Flask
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from flask_bcrypt import Bcrypt
from flask_login import LoginManager
from flask_mail import Mail
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'sqlite:///site.db'
db = SQLAlchemy(app)
bcrypt = Bcrypt(app)
login_manager = LoginManager(app)
login_manager.login_view = 'login'
login_manager.login_message_category = 'info'
app.config['MAIL_SERVER'] = 'smtp.gmail.com'
app.config['MAIL_PORT'] = 587
app.config['MAIL_USE_TLS'] = True
app.config['MAIL_USERNAME'] = os.environ.get('EMAIL_USER')
app.config['MAIL_PASSWORD'] = os.environ.get('EMAIL_PASS')
app.config['MAIL_SUPPRESS_SEND'] = False
app.config['MAIL_DEBUG'] = True
app.config['DEBUG'] = True
app.config['MAIL_FAIL_SILENTLY'] = False
app.config['TESTING'] = False
mail = Mail(app)
In routes.py file:
def send_reset_email(user):
token = user.get_reset_token()
msg = Message(subject='Password Reset Request', sender='noreply@demo.com', recipients=[user.email])
msg.body = f''' To reset your password, visit the following link!:
{url_for('reset_token', token=token, _external=True)}
If you did not make this request then simply ignore this email and no changes will be made
'''
@app.route("/reset_password", methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def reset_request():
if current_user.is_authenticated:
return redirect(url_for('home'))
form = RequestResetForm()
if form.validate_on_submit():
user = User.query.filter_by(email=form.email.data).first()
send_reset_email(user)
flash('An email has been sent with instructions to reset your password.', 'info')
return redirect(url_for('login'))
return render_template('reset_request.html', title='Reset Password', form=form)
I expected to receive the reset email but I didn't and it fails silently.
