Reorganizing Flask Mail App - What am I Missing?

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Hi everyone! I am working on setting up a web application using Flask. I want to be able to send users emails, like when they sign up for example. I followed a tutorial (Sending Emails with Flask - Step-by-Step Flask-Mail Guide | Mailtrap Blog - Sending emails in Flask) and it was working until I reorganized the code to be more than one file, which I need to do to make it work with the rest of my project. Since then, I am getting an error

File “C:\Flask Mail\service\routes.py”, line 6, in index
mail.send(msg)
NameError: name ‘mail’ is not defined

I am clearly doing something wrong, but I don’t know what. My file structure is like this:

Flask Mail
env
service
| pycache
| init.py
| extensions.py
| routes.py
run.py

My code looks like this:

    #__init__.py
    from flask import Flask
    from service import routes
    from .extensions import mail
 
    def create_app(config_file=None):
        # create and configure the app
        app = Flask(__name__)
    
        app.add_url_rule("/", view_func=routes.index)
    
        app.config['MAIL_SERVER']='sandbox.smtp.mailtrap.io'
        app.config['MAIL_PORT'] = 2525
        app.config['MAIL_USERNAME'] = <username from mailtrap>
        app.config['MAIL_PASSWORD'] = <password from mailtrap>
        app.config['MAIL_USE_TLS'] = True
        app.config['MAIL_USE_SSL'] = False
    
        mail.init_app(app)
    
        return app

    #extensions.py
    from flask_mail import Mail, Message
    mail = Mail()

    # routes.py
    from flask_mail import Message
    
    def index():
      msg = Message('Hello from the other side!', sender =   'peter@mailtrap.io', recipients = ['paul@mailtrap.io'])
      msg.body = "Hey Paul, sending you this email from my Flask app, lmk if it works"
      mail.send(msg)
      return "Message sent!"
    
    # run.py
    from service import create_app
    
    app = create_app()
    
    
    if __name__ == '__main__':
       app.run(debug = True)

What am I missing here?

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As it turns out, I was missing an import statement. For anyone else who runs into this problem, add the lines

from flask_mail import Mail, Message
from .extensions import mail

to routes.py and the code will work.