I am trying to send a email in meteor with process.env and smtp gmail

Question

I am using the following to send emails which works on localhost but not my server.

// server
Meteor.startup(function () {
    process.env.MAIL_URL=\"smtp://         


        

Answer 1

You need to URL encode your username and password else Meteor confuses the two '@' signs with each other.

You could do this in your JS console (with encodeURIComponent(username)) and usually end up with something like

user%40gmail.com:password@smtp.gmail.com:465

You could use Mailgun in the same way, or Mandrill, or any other smtp provider. It's just the username format causing the issues.