{"id":135450,"date":"2024-09-06T14:15:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T08:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/?page_id=135450"},"modified":"2024-09-06T14:15:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T08:45:24","slug":"using-background-tasks-for-email-sending","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/using-background-tasks-for-email-sending\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Background Tasks for Email Sending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sending emails can be a time-consuming operation. To avoid blocking the main thread of your FastAPI application, you can use background tasks to handle email sending asynchronously. This allows your application to continue processing other requests while the email is being sent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Installing Required Libraries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ensure you have the following libraries installed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>fastapi<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>uvicorn<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>requests<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>background_tasks<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Creating a Background Task<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Python<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>from fastapi import BackgroundTask\n\ndef send_email_async(recipient_email, subject, body):\n    # ... 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