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

To configure the MAIL_URL, don't forget to add the core email package:

meteor add email

And then, server-side:

// server/smtp.js
Meteor.startup(function () {
  smtp = {
    username: 'your_username',   // eg: server@gentlenode.com
    password: 'your_password',   // eg: 3eeP1gtizk5eziohfervU
    server:   'smtp.gmail.com',  // eg: mail.gandi.net
    port: 25
  }

  process.env.MAIL_URL = 'smtp://' + encodeURIComponent(smtp.username) + ':' + encodeURIComponent(smtp.password) + '@' + encodeURIComponent(smtp.server) + ':' + smtp.port;
});

Read More: Verify an Email with Meteor Accounts.

Answer 2

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.