---
id: prefect-email
version: "0.4.2"
license: Apache License 2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# prefect-email — Prefect integrations for interacting with email.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 131.7K/mo

## What it is and what it does

prefect-email is a Prefect integration that adds email capabilities to workflow orchestration, allowing pipelines to send notifications and alerts via email. It bridges Prefect's task and flow execution with email delivery, making it straightforward to notify users or systems when workflows complete, fail, or reach specific milestones.

The package depends solely on Prefect and supports Python 3.9 through 3.12. It is actively maintained by the Prefect team, with regular updates and no known security vulnerabilities. Installation is lightweight and friction-free, making it a low-risk addition to existing Prefect deployments.

Use it for:

- Send completion notifications when long-running data pipelines finish processing.
- Alert on-call teams when workflow failures occur in production systems.
- Notify stakeholders of report generation or data export completion.
- Trigger email reminders for scheduled maintenance or data refresh tasks.
- Log workflow events and status changes via email for audit trails.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Provides Prefect workflow integration for sending emails, enabling automated email notifications and communications within Prefect orchestration pipelines.

Yes. If you use Prefect for workflow orchestration and need email notifications, this is the official integration to use. It has low install friction, active maintenance, permissive licensing, no security vulnerabilities, and solves a common operational need. Install it when you require email alerts in your Prefect pipelines.

## Install

pip install prefect-email
uv add prefect-email
poetry add prefect-email

## Installing prefect-email

Before you install: Low install friction with a single runtime dependency on prefect. The package is actively maintained with recent commits and has been in development since early 2022, indicating stable integration support.

License in practice: Licensed under Apache License 2.0 (permissive), allowing free use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions—suitable for both open-source and commercial projects.

Quickstart:

pip install prefect-email

from prefect_email import email_send_message

await email_send_message(
    subject="Alert",
    msg="Pipeline completed",
    email_to=["user@example.com"]
)

Requires Prefect to be installed and configured; email credentials must be set up via Prefect blocks or environment variables.

Verify before relying:

- Supported email providers and authentication methods (SMTP, OAuth, etc.) beyond what the fact sheet indicates.
- Whether the package includes pre-built notification blocks or requires manual configuration.
- Email templating or formatting capabilities available in the integration.

## Package facts

- License: Apache License 2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 131.7K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

prefect email integration, workflow email notifications, prefect email tasks, automated email in workflows, prefect smtp integration, email alerts for pipelines, prefect notification blocks, workflow-orchestration, notifications, prefect-integration

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