Populate email "to" field with address from reactive-table in Meteor - email

Question

I have a reactive-table in Meteor that lists usernames and email addresses from the users collection. I want to click on the email address and have a modal pop up with that email address filled in the "to" field.
Template with reactive table and email modal:
<template name="Compete">
{{> reactiveTable class="table table-bordered table-hover" settings=settings }}
{{> emailModalTemplate settings.fields}}
</template>
settings helper:
Template.Compete.helpers({
settings: function(){
if (Meteor.user()){
var col = Meteor.users.find({ }, {fields: {profile:1, emails:1} } );
var email = 'emails.0.address';
return {
collection: col,
showFilter: false,
showNavigation: 'never',
fields: [{
key: 'profile.userName',
label: 'Player'
}, {
key: email,
label: 'Email',
fn: function(email){
return new Spacebars.SafeString(
''+email+''
);
}
}]
};
}
},
And here is the email modal template:
<template name="emailModalTemplate">
<div class="modal fade" id="emailModal">
<div class="modal-dialog modal-sm">
<div class="modal-content">
<div class="modal-header">
<h4 class="modal-title">Send Email</h4>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<form role="form" id="email-form">
<input type="email" id="inputEmail" placeholder="{{addToAddr}}">
<input type="text" id="inputSubject" placeholder="Subject">
<textarea id="inputBody" rows="5" placeholder="Message"></textarea>
<div class="modal-footer">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Send</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Cancel</button>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</template>
At this point, the {{addToAddr}} helper is just console logging "this" but all I can get back are the actual keys from the reactive table settings, but not the values. Am I passing in the right thing by passing in the reactive table helper?
What else could I pass in to the email modal template to get the actual email values that I can then use to populate the email to address field?
EDIT: One last note to add:
My click event is as follows:
'click .sndLnk': function(e){
e.preventDefault();
console.log( $(e.currentTarget).attr('value') );
$('#emailModal').modal('show');
}
The console.log here accurately shows the email address I want to pass in, but how do I pass that in to the email modal form? I assumed via the helper, but maybe that's wrong?

Answer 1

I tinkered with it some more and resolved it by setting a session variable in a new "external" helper function, "external" in that it is just a var I set, not within Template.myTemplate.helpers:
var openEmailModal = function(email) {
Session.set('theEmailAddr', email);
$('#emailModal').modal('show');
}
Then I modified the click event to call the new var/function:
'click .sndLnk': function(e){
e.preventDefault();
var email = $(e.currentTarget).attr('value');
openEmailModal(email);
}
At the end of the day this seems pretty basic, I made it into much more than it was I guess... Thanks to all who viewed.