can't send emails

[duezerouno]

Email package is installed and the MAIL_URL environment variable looks like

smtp://USERNAME:PASSWORDHOST/

When i ask to recover the password it says "email sent" but nothing happens. any help?

[SachaG]

It seems like this might be more of an issue with your Meteor config than Telescope. Are the emails appearing in the console log?

I've only used Mailgun to send emails from Telescope, but I can confirm that this at least works. Maybe you could give it a try? (more info here: http://docs.meteor.com/#email )

[duezerouno]

I have been trying with mailgun (my app of choice is mandrill.com) but nothing happens. should i place the email package somewhere? Right now local folder in .meteor is in .gitignore so maybe that's why it does not load?

[SachaG]

You should not have to do anything about the email package, it's included by default with Meteor.

I'm not sure about .meteor, I don't think it should be in .gitignore… but anyway that should not make any difference if you're testing locally.

In server/users.js there's a testEmail function you can call (just do Meteor.call("testEmail") in your browser's console) to fire off an email (just put your own email in there first). Maybe you can use that to see if it's working or not?

[duezerouno]

I've already pushed to Heroku. I can't really find a solution for this. Might just start again and try to set the email package before deploying.

[tmeasday]

@iamues So your heroku config looks something like

MAIL_URL:      smtp://<user>%40heroku.com:<pass>@smtp.sendgrid.net:587/

?

I'm not sure if mailgun uses it or not but the %40 (for @ in the username) tripped me up at first..

[duezerouno]

@tmeasday similar, because I end up using Mandrill which has no @.

I've placed that in local/app/build/local/email/email.js

[tmeasday]

If you are using heroku, why not set it with
heroku config:add MAIL_URL=….

On Friday, 30 November 2012 at 7:20 PM, Andrea wrote:

@tmeasday (https://github.com/tmeasday) similar, because I end up using Mandrill which has no @.
I've placed that in local/app/build/local/email/email.js

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub (https://github.com/SachaG/Telescope/issues/50#issuecomment-10881712).

[duezerouno]

@tmeasday apparently it is a Mandrill problem. Your solution worked with Mailgun. Thanks

[duezerouno]

I am trying to change the default email text in local/build/app/packages/accounts-password/email_templates.js but nothing happens. Maybe uploading the Packages to Heroku could fix this problem?

[tmeasday]

I'm confused. You shouldn't be editing anything in the .meteor directory.

Why would you not just set the config var via heroku config:add?

[duezerouno]

hmmm. how can i configure the Accounts.emailTemplates "from:" variable?

[SachaG]

I'm not sure what that variable is, I've only tried following the Meteor docs instruction for email config as outlined here: http://docs.meteor.com/#email

So you'd specify the "from" email in the Email.send() options.