Here is a little helper class that allows to easily send email with Laravel without using views.

class EmailHelper{

    /**
     * Sends an email
     *
     * EmailHelper::sendMail(array(
     *      'From' => 'sender@email.com',
     *      'To' => 'recipient@email.com',
     *      'Cc' => 'cc@email.com',
     *      'Bcc' => 'bcc@email.com',
     *      'Text' => 'Here is the text part',
     *      'Html' => '

Here is the HTML part

',
     *      'Subject' => 'This is a test email at ' . date('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
     * ));
     *
     * @return boolean
     */
    public static function sendMail($parameters, $debug = false) {
        \Mail::send([], [], function ($message) use ($parameters) {
            if (isset($parameters['From']) AND $parameters['From'] != "") {
                $message->from($parameters['From']);
            }
            if (isset($parameters['From']) AND $parameters['From'] != "") {
                $message->sender($parameters['From']);
            }
            if (isset($parameters['To']) AND $parameters['To'] != "") {
                $message->to($parameters['To']);
            }
            if (isset($parameters['Cc']) AND $parameters['Cc'] != "") {
                $message->cc($parameters['Cc']);
            }
            if (isset($parameters['Bcc']) AND $parameters['Bcc'] != "") {
                $message->bcc($parameters['Bcc']);
            }
            if (isset($parameters['From']) AND $parameters['From'] != "") {
                $message->replyTo($parameters['From']);
            }
            if (isset($parameters['Subject']) AND $parameters['Subject'] != "") {
                $message->subject($parameters['Subject']);
            }
            if (isset($parameters['Html']) AND $parameters['Html'] != "") {
                $message->setBody($parameters['Html'], 'text/html');
            }
            if (isset($parameters['Text']) AND $parameters['Text'] != "") {
                $message->addPart($parameters['Text'], 'text/plain');
            }
        });

 

        if (count(\Mail::failures()) > 0) {
            return false;
        }
        
        return true;

}