Sending e-mails on the occurrence of errors
It is a good idea to receive errors when something unexpected happens with the application. Setting this up is pretty easy and adds a lot of convenience to the process of error handling.
Getting ready
We will take the application from the last recipe and add mail_handler to it to make our application send e-mails when an error occurs. Also, we will demonstrate how to set up these e-mails using Gmail as the SMTP server.
How to do it…
We will first add the handler to our configuration in __init__.py. This is similar to how we added file_handler in the last recipe:
RECEPIENTS = ['some_receiver@gmail.com'] if not app.debug: import logging from logging import FileHandler, Formatter from logging.handlers import ...
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