Email with attachments in Flask - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to import the Flask-Mail extension.

Flask

from flask_mail import [1]

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AMessage

BMail

CEmail

DAttachment

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Common Mistakes

Importing Message instead of Mail.

Using Email which is not a valid class here.

The Mail class is imported from flask_mail to send emails.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to create a new email message object.

Flask

msg = [1](subject='Hello', sender='[e-mail]', recipients=['[e-mail]'])

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AMessage

BEmail

CMail

DAttachment

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Common Mistakes

Using Mail instead of Message to create the message.

Trying to use Email which is not defined.

The Message class creates an email message object.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in attaching a file to the email message.

Flask

with open('document.pdf', 'rb') as f:
    msg.attach('document.pdf', [1], f.read())

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A'image/png'

B'application/text'

C'application/pdf'

D'text/plain'

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Common Mistakes

Using text/plain or application/text for PDF files.

Using an image MIME type for a PDF attachment.

The MIME type for PDF files is application/pdf.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to configure Flask-Mail with SMTP server and port.

Flask

app.config['MAIL_SERVER'] = '[1]'
app.config['MAIL_PORT'] = [2]

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Asmtp.gmail.com

Bsmtp.mailtrap.io

C587

D465

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Common Mistakes

Using wrong SMTP server address.

Using port 465 which is for SSL, not TLS.

Gmail SMTP server is smtp.gmail.com and port 587 is used for TLS.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to send an email with an attachment using Flask-Mail.

Flask

msg = Message('Report', sender='[e-mail]', recipients=['[e-mail]'])
with open('report.csv', 'rb') as f:
    msg.attach('[1]', '[2]', f.read())
mail.[3](msg)

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Areport.csv

Btext/csv

Csend

Dsend_message

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Common Mistakes

Using wrong MIME type for CSV files.

Using send_message which is not a Flask-Mail method.

The attachment filename is report.csv, MIME type is text/csv, and the method to send is send.