Unable to send e-mail from within custom Symfony2 command but can from elsewhere in app

Question

I have written a custom console command to query my database, produce a report and e-mail it to an address; however I can not seem to successfully send the e-mail. I can sen

Answer 1

Just add this to the end of your execute action:

$container = $this->getContainer();
$mailer = $container->get('mailer'); 
$spool = $mailer->getTransport()->getSpool();    
$transport = $container->get('swiftmailer.transport.real');
$spool->flushQueue($transport);