from flask import render_template from flask.ext.mail import Message from app import mail from decorators import async from config import ADMINS @async def send_async_email(msg): 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 send_async_email(msg) #thr = threading.Thread(target = send_async_email, args = [msg]) #thr.start() def follower_notification(followed, follower): send_email("[microblog] %s is now following you!" % follower.nickname, ADMINS[0], [followed.email], render_template("follower_email.txt", user = followed, follower = follower), render_template("follower_email.html", user = followed, follower = follower))