Scheduling a cron job from a function that is ran outside functions.php?

Solved, although in a pretty poor manner.

If I move the scheduler function

wp_schedule_single_event( time() + 600, 'mail_event_hook' );

into functions.php it starts working. Not sure why, but this is the curse of self taught developers.

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