Sending confirmation Emails with Flask, Redis Queue, and Amazon SES

Send confirmation emails to newly registered users with Flask, Redis Queue, and Amazon SES

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1. Fork/Clone

2. Sign up for AWS (if necessary), verify an email for SES, and update the following environment variables for the worker service in docker-compose.yml:

   - SES_REGION=us-east-2
   - SES_EMAIL_SOURCE=your_email
   - AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your_access_key_id
   - AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your_secret_access_key

3. Spin up the containers and update the database:

   $ docker compose up -d --build
   $ docker compose run users python manage.py create_db

4. Open your browser to http://localhost:5003 to view the app.