I am working on Cron from custom module to send email from custom cron job, I created it as below but the cron job is nor working on the server.
<?php namespace Name\Module\Cron; use Magento\Framework\Mail\Template\TransportBuilder; use Name\Module\Model\MyModule; use Magento\Customer\Model\CustomerFactory; use Name\Module\Helper\Data; class RfqCron { protected $ _logger; protected $ customerFactory; protected $ transportBuilder; protected $ helper; protected $ _myFactory; public function __construct( \Magento\Framework\App\Action\Context $ context, \Psr\Log\LoggerInterface $ logger, \Magento\Framework\Translate\Inline\StateInterface $ inlineTranslation, \Magento\Framework\App\Config\ScopeConfigInterface $ scopeConfig, \Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface $ storeManager, \Magento\Framework\Escaper $ escaper, TransportBuilder $ transportBuilder, CustomerFactory $ customerFactory, Data $ helper, \Name\Module\Model\ResourceModel\MyModule\CollectionFactory $ myFactory ) { $ this->_logger = $ logger; $ this->helper = $ helper; $ this->_myFactory = $ myFactory; $ this->customerFactory = $ customerFactory; $ this->transportBuilder = $ transportBuilder; $ this->inlineTranslation = $ inlineTranslation; $ this->scopeConfig = $ scopeConfig; $ this->storeManager = $ storeManager; $ this->_escaper = $ escaper; } public function execute() { try { $ myCollection = $ this->_myFactory->create(); foreach ($ rmyCollection as $ myData) { $ customer = $ this->customerFactory->create()->load($ myData->getCustomerId()); $ customerInfo = array( 'name' => $ customer['firstname'], 'email' => 'xxxxxx@gmail.com' ); $ currentDate = date('Y-m-d'); $ myExpireDate = $ myData->getExpiryDate(); if ($ myExpireDate == $ currentDate) { $ templateId = $ this->helper->getConfigValue('mysettings/my_customer_notification/customer_email_template_expire'); $ emailTemplateVariables = array( 'email' => $ customerInfo['email'], 'name' => $ customerInfo['name'], 'msg' => "email sent from cron" ); $ storeScope = \Magento\Store\Model\ScopeInterface::SCOPE_STORE; $ this->helper->sendEmailToCustomer( $ templateId, //email template id $ emailTemplateVariables, //variables $ customerInfo //receiver ); $ myData->setMyStatusId(4); $ myData->save(); } } $ this->_logger->addDebug( "Message sent" ); return; } catch (\Exception $ e) { $ this->inlineTranslation->resume(); $ this->_logger->addDebug( "Message not sent" ); return; } } <?xml version="1.0"?> <config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Cron:etc/crontab.xsd"> <group id="name_module_cron_group"> <job name="mycron" instance="Name\Module\Cron\MyCron" method="execute"> <schedule> * www-data PHP /bin/magento cron:run</schedule> </job> </group> </config> 