verify email using accounts.ui package - email

Question

I want to send a verification email when some user is created. I use the accounts-password package, so any Accounts methods are called in my code.
I read in documentation that I need to call:
Accounts.sendVerificationEmail(userId, [email])
but the problem is that I don't know when to call it.
I tried to call in the callback function of Accounts.onCreateUser(func) but the user had not been created yet in the database.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

on the serverside:
Accounts.config({sendVerificationEmail: true, forbidClientAccountCreation: false});
got the answer from the comments above.

Answer 2

sendVerificationEmail is only available server-side. What I usually do is to use a setInterval inside onCreateUser to wait for Meteor to create the user before sending an email.
Read More: Verify an Email with Meteor Accounts.
// (server-side)
Accounts.onCreateUser(function(options, user) {
user.profile = {};
// we wait for Meteor to create the user before sending an email
Meteor.setTimeout(function() {
Accounts.sendVerificationEmail(user._id);
}, 2 * 1000);
return user;
});

Answer 3

You need specify mail in enviroment variables.
Then use Accounts.sendVerificationEmail(userId, [email]) in callback of Account.onCreateUser sorry for mistake and delay.
Like this (below is full example js file):
Template.register.events({
'submit #register-form' : function(e, t) {
e.preventDefault();
var email = t.find('#account-email').value
, password = t.find('#account-password').value;
// Trim and validate the input
Accounts.onCreateUser({email: email, password : password}, function(err){
if (err) {
// Inform the user that account creation failed
} else {
// Success. Account has been created and the user
// has logged in successfully.
Accounts.sendVerificationEmail(this.userId, email);
}
});
return false;
} });
if(Meteor.isServer){
Meteor.startup(function(){
process.env.MAIL_URL='smtp://your_mail:your_password#host:port'
}
}
I refered to this pages :
http://blog.benmcmahen.com/post/41741539120/building-a-customized-accounts-ui-for-meteor
http://sendgrid.com/blog/send-email-meteor-sendgrid/
How come my Meteor app with accounts package is not sending a verification email?