Sending email using Gmail SMTP – Meteorjs

cloud9-idemeteor

Hi I am trying set up my gmail account to send email for my Meteor app, not very easy so far

server.js

Meteor.startup(function () {
  smtp = {
    username: 'xxxxx',   // eg: server@gentlenode.com
    password: 'YYYYYYYY',   // eg: 3eeP1gtizk5eziohfervU
    server:   'smtp.gmail.com',  // eg: mail.gandi.net
    port: 465
  }

  process.env.MAIL_URL = 'smtp://' + encodeURIComponent(smtp.username) + ':' + encodeURIComponent(smtp.password) + '@' + encodeURIComponent(smtp.server) + ':' + smtp.port;
});

Email.send({
  from: "meteor.email.2014@gmail.com",
  to: "xxxx@gmail.com",
  subject: "Meteor Can Send Emails via Gmail",
  text: "Its pretty easy to send emails via gmail."
});

And the testing email is never sent with the below error code saying that I havent set the environment variable.

I20150715-18:14:02.641(0)? ====== BEGIN MAIL #0 ======
I20150715-18:14:02.642(0)? (Mail not sent; to enable sending, set the MAIL_URL environment variable.)
I20150715-18:14:02.643(0)? MIME-Version: 1.0
I20150715-18:14:02.643(0)? From: meteor.email.2014@gmail.com
I20150715-18:14:02.643(0)? To: xxxx@gmail.com
I20150715-18:14:02.643(0)? Subject: Meteor Can Send Emails via Gmail
I20150715-18:14:02.643(0)? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
I20150715-18:14:02.643(0)? Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I20150715-18:14:02.644(0)? 
I20150715-18:14:02.644(0)? Its pretty easy to send emails via gmail.
I20150715-18:14:02.645(0)? ====== END MAIL #0 ======

Could this be due I am running this on C9?

Thanks

Best Answer

Sucks that cloud9 does not permit the setting of environment variables. Perhaps you can set the Meteor.settings object rather than an environment variable?

http://docs.meteor.com/#/full/meteor_settings

Essentially, you can pass JSON to meteor when you start it using --settings. These will be available on the server side only, unless wrapped under a "public" object of the root.

{
  'public': {
     'some-setting': 'some-value'
  },
  'other-setting': 'other-value'
}

That is a work around for dealing with no envrionmental variables. As the core email package always looks at the MAIL_URL environmental variable, you will probably need to send email through another service/provider.

Mandrill (by Mailchimp) have a sizeable free tier and will allow you to send transactional email. You can even make a mail template in mailchimp, export to HTML, import to mandrill and pass in merge variables in your API calls.

Better yet, there is a kick-ass package for writing to the Mandrill API. https://atmospherejs.com/wylio/mandrill

Hope that helps!

Elliott

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