I am struggling with this issue for few days now, reading and trying whatever I came across with no solution found: Here is the bottom line of what I want to do: I have a members only system. when a member posts a message on the message board all others get notification by email. Simple. I use the PHP script to create a list of recipients (email and name) in a CSV file, store the file to be opened later by the cron job and shoot the emails out. Simple. Oh ... names are in Hebrew script as they stored in the MySQL DB. I have tried the script manually (running it through the browser and it all went sweet). Running it through cron, though, will not read the names and leave it blank:I am struggling with this issue for few days no