How to use node-imap and Meteor together?

Question

How to use node-imap and Meteor together?

I'm looking for a way to access an IMAP mail account like Gmail and using Meteor. I found node-imap but since it's an NPM module I've had a hard time getting NPM modules to work in Meteor.

Is there a good way to access an IMAP account using Meteor?

node.js
imap
meteor

Answer 1

I was getting the same trouble as described here.

Instead of __meteor_bootstrap__.require use Npm.require.

Answer 2

That's a fun one. I had exactly that as an example, see my repository for it on GitHub

In short: Follow this Coderwall tip to install the node-imap module. Then in your meteor code:

if (Meteor.isServer) {
  var require = __meteor_bootstrap__.require;
  var imap = require('imap');

and put the actual code in the

Meteor.startup(function() { ... });

call on the server side.