How can I send emails using my own mail server in Meteor? - email

Question

I am trying to enable email support for my Meteor application, and since I have my own server I want to also use my own mail server. So I installed postfix in my Debian wheezy server and successfully sent and email to my GMail address, so that means the mail server works properly and sends emails.
When I deploy my Meteor app and try to send an email though, say to do a password reset, my app crashes with the following error:
Exception while invoking method 'forgotPassword' RecipientError: Can't send mail - all recipients were rejected
at Object.Future.wait (/home/loupax/phial/bundle/programs/server/node_modules/fibers/future.js:326:15)
at smtpSend (packages/email/email.js:94)
at Object.Email.send (packages/email/email.js:155)
...
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My MAIL_URL environment variable is in the format MAIL_URL=smtp://my_domain.tld.

Answer 1

Looks like all I had to do, is change the MAIL_URL environmental variable from smtp://my_domain.tld to smtp://localhost. After that everything worked just fine

Answer 2

Is your server on Amazon? Sometimes SMTP servers are known to block anything sent from certain hosting providers entire IP ranges to block spam.
You might want to consider using a different SMTP server, Amazon's SES, or Mandrill (which has a meteorite package to help) (personally I use both SES and Mandrill).
Note its not only Amazons IP blocks which are in this, its also any hosting provider a spammer can quickly set up. Your SMTP sever probably employs a list from somewhere with all these ips on it

Answer 3

for forgot password email, follow below steps
1) create smtp.js file in server folder and past below code in it
Meteor.startup(function () {
process.env.MAIL_URL =
'smtps://abcd#gmail.com:password#smtp.gmail.com:465';
});
2) paste below code in forgot password.js file
Template.forgot.events({
'click #forgot'(event,template) {
event.preventDefault();
let email = $("#email").val();
// paste below code in server.main.js -> in Meteor.startup function.
/* Accounts.urls.resetPassword = function(token) {
return Meteor.absoluteUrl('reset-password/' + token);
};*/
Accounts.forgotPassword({email:email},function (error,result) {
if(error)
{
alert(error);
}
else
{
console.log(result);
alert("mail sent ..!! Check your mail box");
FlowRouter.go('/login');
}
});
}
});
3 ) in main.js file in server folder paste below code
import '../server/smtp';
Meteor.startup(() => {
// code to run on server at startup
Accounts.urls.resetPassword = function(token) {
return Meteor.absoluteUrl('reset-password/' + token);
};
});
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