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Hi so i'm very new to coding and have taught myself so please forgive me if this comes across as a really dumb question.

Basically I am building a web app, just something I want to try out. I have installed the meteor email package and follow the docs as well as I could, but all seem to involve running a smtp server such as mailgun.

I was wanting to find out if is there anyway to run a localhost version, I dont want to signup for things like mailgun at the moment I just want to testing the emails and have them send to my personal email. Is there a way or would I have to set up something through say mailgun?

Again sorry about what I am sure is a pretty simple answer, but all the googling I have done doesnt seem to help me get any closer to an answer.

Thanks in advance.

FlawlessCalamity
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If you have Gmail account you can easily use it for sending emails. You have to set MAIL_URL variable, to something like that:

smtps://username%40gmail.com:password@smtp.gmail.com:465

At this moment although you have correct username and password you won't be able to send emails because of Google security rules. According to this answer you have to allow the less secure applications and allow access to your account. After this steps, you should be able to send emails from your Meteor application.

mparkitny
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