attach a pdf to an email in meteor

Question

This Meteor server code tries to attach a pdf file but giving errors on server startup. I want avoid saving the file locally first. it is using pascoual:pdfkit.
The error I am getting is:

Error: Message failed: 421 Timeout waiting for data from client.

Meteor doc point to mailcomposer documentation, but the issue is how to integrate the pdf doc in the attachments. Any ideas? Thanks

Meteor.startup(() => {
  Invoice.email();
};

// invoice.js
use strict";
let PDFDocument = require ('pdfkit');
let metaData = {
  'Title': 'Invoice',
  'Author': 'myName',
};
export const Invoice = {
  'make': function () {
    let doc = new PDFDocument(metaData);
    doc.text('my company').text('company number');

    return doc;
  },
  'email': function () {
    let inv = Invoice.make();
    Email.send({
      to: 'myemail@comp.com',
      from: 'personal@company.com',
      subject: 'Invoice',
      text: ' Please see the attached invoice',
      attachments: {
        filename: 'invoice.pdf',
        content: inv // <=== this is the issue
     });
  }
};

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 21 '17 at 02:26

As per Documentation, the content definition is

content - String, Buffer or a Stream contents for the attachment

Link to mailcomposer documentation.

If I am not wrong the Invoice.make() is not returning expecting format of blob. Kindly check the Stream and type so that you know you get what you are creating.

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attach a pdf to an email in meteor

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