Trouble sending mail from cron on intel box

[Jerry LeVan]

I am have trouble sending mail from cron on my new intel macbook pro...

I am trying to send mail to moi when the cron job runs. I get
the mail but the contents are empty.

Of course running from the command line works ;(

Here is the contents of daily.local:

[mbp:/var/log]$ cat /etc/daily.local
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/mail -s "Daily Cron Job" jerry <<DOC
Daily Cron ran on `/bin/date`
DOC

Here are the relevant parts of the daily cron log file:

Running daily.local:
csh: No $home variable set.
"~/.mailrc": No match.
Null message body; hope that's ok

The same setup on my G4 works fine...Of course I set
things up 4+ years ago so I might have forgotten something :)

Any clues on how to fix the problem?

Jerry