A better way to send emails or not send emails based on the environment?

Hello,

We have 3 environments: local development, test server and the prod.

• The local dev server cannot send emails.

• The test can send emails but I want to set the email addresses manually and not to the actual recipients.

• The prod should send emails to the actual recipients.

What I do right now is I have this function in each controller:

public function sendEmails($mailObject, $recipients)
{
    $environment= config('app.env');

    switch ($environment) {
        case 'local':
            Log::debug('Email sent');
            break;
        case 'test':
            Mail::to('[email protected]')->send($mailObject);
            break;
        case 'production':
             Mail::to($recipients)->send($mailObject);
            break;
    }
}

And the usage would be for example:

$mailObject = new \App\Mail\SomeMail();
$this->sendEmail($mailObject, $user->email);

The first thing I can do to improve it is to move this function to a Trait perhaps instead of having that in every Controller. But besides that - is there a better way to do that? Maybe there's already a built-in feature in Laravel for that?

Thanks