Mandrill Authentication error for meteorjs local application - email

Question

I am trying to integrate Mandrill to send and receive emails in my application. I am doing the following from http://localhost:3000 -
Run following to add mandrill to meteor project -
meteor add wylio:mandrill
put the following in server startup -
Meteor.startup(function() {
return Meteor.Mandrill.config({
username: "mandrill-user-id#gmail.com",
key: "Valid API Key generated in Mandrill",
password: "Valid API Key generated in Mandrill",
});
});
Then call the following to send the email -
Meteor.Mandrill.send(
{ host: "smtp.mandrillapp.com"
, port: 587
, to: to//"customer#anydomain.com"
, from: from //"you#yourdomain.com"
, subject: "Mandrill knows Javascript!"
, body: "Hello from NodeJS!"
, authentication: "LOGIN"
, username: "username#gmail.com"//username
, password: "API Key from mandrill page"//password
}, function(err, result){
if(err){
console.log(err);
}
}
);
When I try sending the email, I get the following error -
Exception while invoking method 'sendQollMail' AuthError: Invalid login - 535 Authentication failed: Bad username / password
at Object.Future.wait (/Users/priyanka/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.0.40.1qwqep8++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/meteor-tool-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/server-lib/node_modules/fibers/future.js:326:15)
at smtpSend (packages/email/email.js:91:1)
at Object.Email.send (packages/email/email.js:168:1)
at Object.Meteor.Mandrill.send (packages/wylio:mandrill/mandrill.js:12:1)
at Object.QollMailer.sendQollEmail (app/server/lib/QollMailer.js:58:21)
at [object Object].Meteor.methods.sendQollMail (app/server/lib/QollMailer.js:87:27)
at maybeAuditArgumentChecks (packages/ddp/livedata_server.js:1599:1)
at packages/ddp/livedata_server.js:648:1
at [object Object]._.extend.withValue (packages/meteor/dynamics_nodejs.js:56:1)
at packages/ddp/livedata_server.js:647:1
- - - - -
at SMTPClient._actionAUTHComplete (/Users/priyanka/.meteor/packages/email/.1.0.5.s8780m++os+web.browser+web.cordova/npm/node_modules/simplesmtp/lib/client.js:826:23)
at SMTPClient._onData (/Users/priyanka/.meteor/packages/email/.1.0.5.s8780m++os+web.browser+web.cordova/npm/node_modules/simplesmtp/lib/client.js:329:29)
at CleartextStream.emit (events.js:95:17)
at CleartextStream.<anonymous> (_stream_readable.js:764:14)
at CleartextStream.emit (events.js:92:17)
at emitReadable_ (_stream_readable.js:426:10)
at _stream_readable.js:419:7
at process._tickCallback (node.js:419:13)
Can you tell me what am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

I was doing everything correct. Except that - sometimes back I had tried integrating with mailgun (or some other service). That required setting up following env variable -
process.env.MAIL_URL = 'smtp://username:password#host:port';
This was overriding the username/password in mandrill. Taking it out resolved the issue.