Using Flask-Mail to Send Email Confirmation Links

Email confirmation links are very common in web apps. You want them so you don't have people signing up to your app using random emails. In this video I show you how to use Flask-Mail and itsdangerous to generate and send email confirmation links.

[quechon]

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[sinabooeshaghi]

Dude you make such amazing videos! I am a self taught programmer and your explanations are so clearly laid out and thorough I 100% appreciate it. I am working on my first webapp now with Flask and I have made so much progress thanks to you. Thank you again and keep on making great vids!

[oppzreq]

Wow, this was one of the most straight forward tutorials ever! Thank you so much!

[evanwallace]

Amazing video! Your style of teaching is great! Easy to understand, quick, and to the point. Thank you so much!

[ValeriiPavlikov]

I don't speak much english but I want say to u THANK U VERY VERY MUCH! Your tutorials are useful for me!

[bispro]

You made me stuck into Flask, not Php and CodeIgnite anymore. thanks.

[guershondorismond]

Your are really good at what you do. This helped me integrate email validation with my flask python. Without the usual rabbit hole of issues that I run into. I really appreciate the video. Keep up the great work!

[handelsassistentenundtradi]

I learn a lot with your content. Great job!

[eugeneodonnell]

A very clear tutorial on a useful topic

[olegpyzh]

Thank you! This video helped me a lot! I was stuck on Email sending for a while: I was using Gmail and found out that "Less secure app access" was no longer available, so I switched to Zoho email and it finally worked well.

[verygood]

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[WannaSeeWhatYouGot]

Great tutorial, and no dislikes prove that!

[artemkhmil]

Thanks a ton for such cool video!! Very useful! Great job!

[peralser]

Amazing Video!!! Thanks for sharing it.

[mpt]

Hey Anthony, quality content as usual! I actually implemented this during the weekend, could have used your video then, but luckily I managed anyway!

As a follow-up question, since I couldn't find a way to expire the token manually when a link has been clicked, I set up a table for each token which I then set to used=True after a token has been used successfully. My gut tells me it would be cleaner to completely delete the token from the DB when it's been used, but then I can't come up with a solution how to tell if it's been used unless I actually query the database instead of comparing the token from the UrlSerializer of course... Come to think of it.

Anyway! So far, so good. But I was wondering if a token could actually be generated identically twice, because that could eventually become an issue with password-resets etc for my current solution (just setting the token to used).

Again, many thanks for your videos!

[irmapreldzic]

Thank you for this! I have a question, is there a way to make this link only clickable once. Like a onetime link?

[shardulkulkarni]

great work dude!!! thanks for your video.

[premierlin]

Hi may I have the configuration for gmail? Thanks :)

[Anshegar]

ERROR:
STARTTLS extension not supported by server.
(all data from mail server i put in code, but not works)

[gurdeepsingh]

how can i get mail server for my gmail?