matrix thanks a lot, that was very kind of you:
i tried it as follows but had an error "message bad minute" in my file after submitting for crontab. This is what i did:

vi mycron
00 7 * * * echo hi mother, i wanna be a script daddy.
echo hello | mail -s hello again unixbuddy@hello.com
:wq

crontab mycron

what does "contents" refer to? should hello again be within quotes?. couldn't find the mistake.

Thanks a lot,
alikun