How can I send Email in Laravel command instead of controller - php

Question

I'm working on a project using Laravel where I want to be able to send an email when it is scheduled to send.
So far I've only found solutions to send a mail through a Route but I want to be able to send the mail when cron activates my self made command. I've already made a view of the mail that should be sent and made a page sendMail with php artisan make:mail sendMail that returns the mail view.
sendMail.php
<?php
namespace App\Mail;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
class sendMail extends Mailable
{
use Queueable, SerializesModels;
/**
* Create a new message instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct()
{
$winnersposts = DB::select('select post_id from winners group by post_id');
$posts = DB::select('select * from posts ');
$this->winnerposts =$winnersposts;
$this->posts=$posts;
}
/**
* Build the message.
*
* #return $this
*/
public function build()
{
return $this ->from('ivanrompa#gmail.com')
->view('emails.template');
}
}
mailAdmin.php
public function handle()
{
}
My command handle is still empty but I previously tried to implement to logic from my controller above in my command but it didn't work.
Am I writing the wrong code and is that the reason it just doesn't work or should I approach it in a different way? It is maybe good to know that I am still learning Laravel and I have never sent an email before through code. Any tips or solutions are welcome.

Answer 1

Assuming you have set your email configuration correctly.
Add this in your mailAdmin.php
use Mail;
use App\Mail\sendMail
public function handle()
{
Mail::to('recipient#gmail.com')->send(new sendMail);
}
Then run the command