Email Confirmations

• Lets try to see how to use email package to develop an email activation feature on the insta cook platform for user registration as well as email verification
• We already have code/api designed in a way where email addresses are being sent by users.
• We need to ensure the correctness of email address as we would communicate to the user in the future
• User Registration workflow
• Lab Setup:
  • Mailgun API Refer Here:
    • This is third party SMTP and API sending email provider.
    • Through mailgun, as part of free plan we can send 5000 email per month
    • This is enough for learning purposes
    • Mailgun provides an RESTful API, which will be used to send the emails
    • Sign up for the mailgun Refer Here
    • After your account is activated, Navigate to sending and select the sandbox
    • Make a note of base url and API Key
• Lets use mailgun API to send out emails Refer Here
• Refer Here for the implementation of email sending functionality

User Account Activation workflow

• The steps:
  • User registers for our application
  • send out verification email
  • user clicks on the link in the activation email
  • Account Activated
• To build this workflow, we will be using is_active attribute in the user model to indicate if the account is validated or not
• We need to create a method to send verification email when the user registers and the endpoint can be used to open the account.
• In order to create a unique link, we will be using itsdangerous package
• Refer Here for the implementation of generation and verification of token
• Refer Here for the documetation of itsdangerous package