delayed crontab

[flamedog]

after sending a ticket to support they sent me here so here is my problem.

ok so i set this up the other day and its delayed the times by at least 2-4hours... heres my crontab
"
#8:30am
30 08 * * * php /usr/www/flamedog1/mail1.php
#
#10:30am
30 10 * * * php /usr/www/flamedog1/mail2.php
#
#08:30pm
30 20 * * * php /usr/www/flamedog1/mail3.php
#
#10:30pm
30 22 * * * php /usr/www/flamedog1/mail4.php
"
ive tested each script from the ssh console and they worked with no delay. and ive left them outside the "public" folder so that people via the website can not trigger the mail scripts. am i doing something wrong ? or is it crontab's fault ?

here is what the mail script files look like.

<?php
$to = 'email@fake.com;
$subject = 'This is a subject line';
$message = ''msg";
$headers = 'From: info@mywebsiteaddress.com'; <- because when i send it from the server it sends as "flamedog1@hosted10.nfoservers.com"

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

[Edge100x]

I checked the logs and your cronjob is being executed correctly at the appropriate times:

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# grep "flamedog" /var/log/messages | grep CMD
Aug 28 08:30:01 hosted10 cron[23213]: (flamedog1) CMD (php /usr/www/flamedog1/mail1.php )
Aug 28 10:30:01 hosted10 cron[10048]: (flamedog1) CMD (php /usr/www/flamedog1/mail2.php)
Aug 28 20:30:01 hosted10 cron[32326]: (flamedog1) CMD (php /usr/www/flamedog1/mail3.php)
Aug 28 22:30:01 hosted10 cron[16751]: (flamedog1) CMD (php /usr/www/flamedog1/mail4.php)

It could be that your email provider delayed the email delivery.

[flamedog]

weird because when ever i do it manully it sends fine but when its auto sent its delayed X3 ill have to look in to some why to fix this :3 thanks for your help once again ^^