title: flask-mail AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'send'
body: <p>I am trying to use flask.ext.mail to send email, however I am getting the following error. I followed a number of tutorials and they all seem to be doing the same thing, I have been looking around to see if anyone is getting this error and haven't found it.:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1836, in __call__
      return self.wsgi_app(environ, start_response)
    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site xpackages/flask/app.py", line 1820, in wsgi_app
      response = self.make_response(self.handle_exception(e))
    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1403, in handle_exception
      reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1817, in wsgi_app
      response = self.full_dispatch_request()
    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1477, in full_dispatch_request
      rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1381, in handle_user_exception
  reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1475, in full_dispatch_request
      rv = self.dispatch_request()
    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1461, in dispatch_request
      return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)
    File "/Users/aaronwishnick/Documents/Work/NewPersonalSite/app/views.py", line 27, in mail
      mail.send(msg)
  AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'send'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is my <strong>init</strong>.py</p>
  
  <pre><code>import os
  from flask import Flask
  from flask.ext.mail import Mail
  app = Flask(__name__)
  app.config.update(
      MAIL_SERVER = 'smtp.gmail.com',
      MAIL_PORT = 25,
      MAIL_USE_TLS = False,
      MAIL_USE_SSL = False,
      MAIL_USERNAME = 'gmail_username',
      MAIL_PASSWORD = 'gmail_password'
  )
  mail = Mail(app)
  from app import views
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And mail function:</p>
  
  <pre><code>email = request.args.get('email')
  name = request.args.get('name')
  message = request.args.get('message')
  msg = Message("Message from your site",
                sender=email,
                recipients=["aaronwishnick@gmail.com"])
  msg.body = message
  mail.send(msg)
  </code></pre>