Setting Email for Forgot Password & Other application-wide emails

Email functionality is used in some parts of applications like “Forgot Password”, “Offline Payment approval for SaaS module” and others from time-to-time.

During installation steps, you can set up email setting with all “SMTP” details or if you’re server support PHP-mail then you can use that too (PHP-mail is not recommended)

But if you have not set up it correctly then you can follow the below steps to do it:

• Open you .env file
• You will find the below configurations present there

MAIL_HOST=

MAIL_PORT=

MAIL_USERNAME=

MAIL_PASSWORD=

MAIL_ENCRYPTION=

• Fill in the appropriate details, you can get in contact with your hosting provider for any of the values above.
• For example with Gmail it looks like below:

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp

MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com

MAIL_PORT=587

MAIL_USERNAME=

MAIL_PASSWORD=

MAIL_ENCRYPTION=TLS

• Some hosting disable port 587 and due to that email may not work, contact your hosting provider & they will enable it.

Gmail SMTP:

If you’re using Gmail or GSuite it might throw some errors, check below for a solution:

1. If you have 2-factor authentication enabled (almost all have this enabled) then create an app password for pos.

1.More details here https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en

2. Create app password from here: https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords

2. Change port & encryption: Try using port 465 and encryption SSL