Meteor email success alert

Question

I am using Bert and Meteor Email. In my MEteor MEthods, I return the success of sending email. The problem is, after sending email, It does not return the success message.

here is my sample code,

Meteor.call('sendEmail',
                data.eadd,
                'e@gmail.com',
                'Invitation',
                'test');

            return "successful.";

Here is my sendEmail function,

sendEmail(to, from, subject, text) {
    check([to, from, subject, text], [String]);
    this.unblock();
    Email.send({
        to: to,
        from: from,
        subject: subject,
        text: text
    });
}

Possible duplicate of [How to get Meteor.Call to return value for template?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10677491/how-to-get-meteor-call-to-return-value-for-template) — rubie, Dec 20 '16 at 09:44
Check out this question/answer - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10677491/how-to-get-meteor-call-to-return-value-for-template - is that what you're looking for? — rubie, Dec 20 '16 at 09:46

Michel Floyd · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-20T23:20:10.687

Your Meteor.call() needs to include a callback and your sendEmail function needs to return a value. Rearrange your code as follows:

Meteor.call('sendEmail',data.eadd,'e@gmail.com','Invitation','test',(err,result)=>{
  if (err) Bert.alert({ title: 'Error sending email: '+err, type: 'danger' });
  else Bert.alert({ title: 'Email sent!', type: 'success' })
});

sendEmail(to, from, subject, text) {
  check([to, from, subject, text], [String]);
  this.unblock();
  Email.send({
    to: to,
    from: from,
    subject: subject,
    text: text
  });
  return "successful.";  
}

Note: from a security pov I don't recommend such a method where the entire email can be specified on the client as you've basically created a scriptable open email relay - one that can even be run by an anonymous user.

Meteor email success alert

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