Meteor : Email a Template in Client using Mailgun - email

Question

I have a Template in client
<template name="sendThis">
<img src="logo.png"><br>
<h3>Welcome to Meteor NewBie</h3>
Dear {{name}},
<p>You received this Email because you have subscribed to http://www.example.com</p>
</template>
I would like to send this Template(sendThis) as HTML body in my Email to subscribers.
I am using Mailgun as my Email Client. What are the steps I should take to make this happen as a subscriber clicks a button with an id "subscribe".
PS: I have multiple helpers in this template, multiple in the sense more than 20.
Thanks in advance.
Mahesh B.

Answer 1

One way to solve this is to use Blaze.toHTMLWithData to render your template (with a context) to an HTML string. You can then call a method on your server which emails the user with the appropriate subject and address. Here's an example:
client
var sendSignupEmail = function() {
// This assumes this first email address is the one you want.
// In some cases you may want the first verified email, but not
// during signup.
var address = Meteor.user().emails[0].address;
var subject = 'Thanks for signing up!';
// Here I used username - replace this with the appropriate data
// like Meteor.user().profile.firstName or something.
var body = Blaze.toHTMLWithData(Template.sendThis, {
name: Meteor.user().username
});
Meteor.call('sendEmail', address, subject, body);
};
server
Meteor.methods({
sendEmail: function(to, subject, html) {
check([to, subject, html], [String]);
this.unblock();
return Email.send({
to: to,
from: 'something#example.com',
subject: subject,
html: html
});
}
});
Also make sure your MAIL_URL environment variable has been defined.