Setting up Email/SMTP for Forgot password & other email notifications

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_DRIVER=smtp
    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.
• NOTE: Use either TLS or SSL, don’t type both. Also, provide the port according to the given encryption used.

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