cron script #1 - done 
Yeah! the first cron script is finished. Now on to the second one - slightly more complex but hopefully not too bad.
The biggest problem I had was getting stupid Outlook Express and Outlook to understand the character set. They kept on wanting to put it into Latin based characters - never mind that there is a header that says the character set is utf8 (Oh sorry for M$: UTF-8). Stupid thing.
Thank you PEAR’s Mail_Mime package. You made my life MUCH easier once I figured out how you work.