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Old 03-21-2007
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it should be of the following form,


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

by contents, I meant the message that you are trying it send it via mail.


Posted above should work, paste it and save in the cron file