How come my Meteor app with accounts package is not sending a verification email?

Question

I am making a meteor app and I have the mrt accounts-password package added as well as mrt accounts-ui-bootstrap-dropdown.

I have added the loginbuttons so users ca

Answer 1

See here: http://docs.meteor.com/#email

If MAIL_URL is not set (eg, when running your application locally), Email.send outputs the message to standard output instead

Web servers such as Meteor cannot send emails by themselves, they need a SMTP server to do that. You need to set up one and set it with MAIL_URL variable.