In the Laravel documentation for using the Mailable class (https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/mail#sending-mail), it says under the heading "Inline Attachments", "Laravel automatically makes the $message variable available to all of your email templates, so you don't need to worry about passing it in manually". However, I am not able to access the $message variable in my email template that is called from the build method of the Mailable class using the view function. When I do a dd($message) in the email template, the only variable available to the $message variable is the $message->embeddedFiles variable. The other variables like $message->to, $message->from, $message->subject are not available.

Has anyone been able to get this to work?

Here is my code for the subclass that extends the Mailable class:

<!-- Contact.php -->

<?php

namespace App\Mail;

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class Contact extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;

    private $message;

    public $request;

    /**
     * Create a new message instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct(Request $request)
    {
        $this->request = $request;
    }

    /**
     * Build the message.
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function build()
    {
        return $this->view('emails.contact')
        ->to('dbrower256@cableone.net')
        ->subject('message from texarkanasoftware.com website - ' . $this->request->subject);
    }
}

If anyone figures this out, please help me.