Sending StatusMails by CronJob - what is the right approach?

Hey,

I read uncountable articles now and tried really hard to get this to
work, but I just can't figure out how to solve this problem:

Let's say I want to write a cronjob that will check every sunday
what's new in a database and sends an overview of things that are
still to do to the users of my app.

I found several approaches to do that, but I can't figure out what's
the best way here.

I know how to call a shell script from a cron job and I already
managed to do this, I even have Access to a model and even controller
actions.

The other thing I have is a way to run actions directly from shell by
a dispatcher-script which I found in the bakery.

Both approaches have one big problem:
I CAN'T get them to send an email thorugh the Cake Email-Component!

No matter what I do, if the sending is within the called action by the
dispatcher call or if I try do import the Email-Component into the
Shell-script, it will never send me any email.

Additionally, I need to know one very important thing:

Does the logic for such status reports (or even newsletters or so)
belong into the SHELL script or is it common to call a specific action
in a specific controller to collect the data that is needed and send
the email?

It would be MUCH appreciated if somebody could even give me a hint or
maybe just an opinion to these questions...

Regards,

DD

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