How to Setup Laravel default password reset mail

Most web applications provide a way for users to reset their forgotten passwords. Rather than forcing you to re-implement this on each application, Laravel provides convenient methods for sending password reminders and performing password resets.

Laravel includes Auth\ForgotPasswordController and Auth\ResetPasswordController classes that contains the logic necessary to e-mail password reset links and reset user passwords. All of the routes needed to perform password resets may be generated using the php artisan make:auth Composer package:

Once you have defined the routes and views to reset your user’s passwords, you may access the route in your browser at /password/reset. The ForgotPasswordController included with the framework already includes the logic to send the password reset link e-mails, while the ResetPasswordController includes the logic to reset user passwords.

After a password is reset, the user will automatically be logged into the application and redirected to /home. You can customize the post password reset redirect location by defining a redirectTo property on the ResetPasswordController:

You just need to make some changes on .env , you can find these lines in your env file We are using Gmail SMTP Server to send Email in Laravel for this.

1:- Creating / Using an existing Gmail account to create app passwords.

I’m using my existing Gmail account, butt in case if you wish to create a new account you can go for that also, Clink on this LINK to create one

Next we need to enable 2 step Verification in Gmail as follows:

Login into Gmail .
To be able to create app passwords we need to first enable 2 Step Verification .
Click on the user icon and select “Google Account” .
Next we need to select Security from the left nav , then select “2 Step Verification” . (Doing this would ask you to login again and then Gmail would authenticate you further using OTP )

Now we generate the app password that we would be using in the Laravel Application , again clicking on the Google Account in the user icon ->Security ->App Passwords . (This would again ask you to login and then authenticate using OTP)
We need to select “Mail” as the app and “Other (Custom name)” as the device from the drop downs .

Selecting this would ask you to add the name of the Application for which you wish to generate the password and once added click GENERATE.
This would open a pop up with your 16 character app password . (Kindly copy this and keep it safe).
We are all set to add these detail’s to the Application.

2. Adding Gmail Account detail’s to the Laravel Application: