Bjarke Madsen
--- a/compendium_v2/email/__init__.py 0 → 100644
+++ b/compendium_v2/email/__init__.py 0 → 100644
+            server.sendmail(from_addr=sender_email, to_addrs=recipients, msg=message)
+        logger.debug('Successfully sent email')
+    except Exception:
+        logger.exception('Unable to send email:')
+
+
+def send_mail(
+    contents: str,
+    subject: str = 'New user signed up for Compendium',
+    recipients: Union[str, Sequence[str]] = ''
+):
+    if not current_app.config['MAIL_ENABLE']:
+        logger.warning('No mail configuration, cannot send email.')
+        return
+
+    if not isinstance(contents, str):
--- a/compendium_v2/email/__init__.py 0 → 100644
+++ b/compendium_v2/email/__init__.py 0 → 100644
+from sqlalchemy import select
+from flask import current_app
+from compendium_v2 import db
+from compendium_v2.db.auth_model import User, ROLES
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def _send_mail(smtp_server, port, sender_email, recipients, message):
+
+    try:
+        with smtplib.SMTP(smtp_server, port) as server:
+            server.sendmail(from_addr=sender_email, to_addrs=recipients, msg=message)
+        logger.debug('Successfully sent email')
+    except Exception:
+        logger.exception('Unable to send email:')
-        logger.exception('Unable to send email:')
+except Exception as e:
+        logger.exception(f'Unable to send email. exception: {e}')