I can't get forgot password to work, it throws 500 error

[artmelkon]

Link to reproduction

No response

Describe the Bug

when I try to fetch the token I get 500 error. I have posted this issue on Discord and Dan suggested that it could be a bug. This is my front end code: `import { NextApiRequest, NextApiResponse } from "next"; // import { getServerSession } from "next-auth/next";

// import { authOptions } from "./[...nextauth]";

export default async function handler(req: NextApiRequest, res: NextApiResponse) {

if (req.method === 'POST') { try { console.log('email ', req.body.email) const result = await fetch(${process.env.CMS_URI}/api/users/forgot-password, { method: 'POST', credentials: 'include', headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" }, body: JSON.stringify({ email: req.body.email }) });

  const data = await result.json();
  console.log(data)
} catch (err) {
  console.log(err)
}

} }`

This is the returned data { errors: [ { message: 'Something went wrong.' } ] }

And this error was thrown from the server ERROR (payload): TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'email') at Object.generateEmailHTML (/Users/arthurmelkonyan/webdev/ethnicast-cms/payloadcms/src/collections/Users/index.ts:24:32) at forgotPassword (/Users/arthurmelkonyan/webdev/ethnicast-cms/payloadcms/node_modules/payload/src/auth/operations/forgotPassword.ts:112:59) at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) at forgotPasswordHandler (/Users/arthurmelkonyan/webdev/ethnicast-cms/payloadcms/node_modules/payload/src/auth/requestHandlers/forgotPassword.ts:15:5)

To Reproduce

I have created the form on the front end to capture the email and pass to API Route handler

Payload Version

v2

Adapters and Plugins

No response

[faizur11786]

Hey @artmelkon, Have you configured the mail service like smtp in the payload init?

await payload.init({
    secret: process.env.PAYLOAD_SECRET,
    express: app,
    email: {
      transportOptions: transportOptions,
      fromName: process.env.MAIL_FROM_NAME,
      fromAddress: process.env.MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS,
    },
  });

[artmelkon]

Hi faizur11786. Yes, I have done it and I don't think it has to do with that. That configuration didn't work for me, throwing error saying that email wasn't configured right, basically it was a mail server issue. So, I'm using "nodemailer-sendgrid-transport module ", tested and it works perfectly fine. I don't think that it's related to SMPT configuration as the error thrown for the server tells that " undefined (reading 'email')"

[artmelkon]

I fixed it and it works.

[PatrikKozak]

Hey @artmelkon - are you still experiencing this issue or has it been resolved?

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