MY crontab ain't me!

From	Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	MY crontab ain't me!
Date	2020-12-21 14:50 +0100
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I got an email from cron this morning that needs some explaining.
Here is a dcop connand _I_ can execute, no error
/opt/trinity/bin/dcop kmail KMailIface resumeBackgroundJobs

But I put it in MY crontab and get this email

Cron <gene@coyote> /opt/trinity/bin/dcop kmail KMailIface 
resumeBackgroundJobs
 From: Cron Daemon <root@coyote.coyote.den>
 To: gene@coyote.coyote.den

ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!

I have other scripts to aid my incoming email that run as me, and use 
dcop to get their job done w/o a problem.

But put the exact same command in MY crontab and its rejected.

2 questions, why?, and why is this email from root?

Thanks for any enlightenment.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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 - Louis D. Brandeis
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MY crontab ain't me! Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-21 14:50 +0100
  Re: MY crontab ain't me! Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-12-21 15:10 +0100
  Re: MY crontab ain't me! <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-21 15:10 +0100
    Re: MY crontab ain't me! tomas@tuxteam.de - 2020-12-21 15:20 +0100
      Re: MY crontab ain't me! Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-21 16:00 +0100
        Re: MY crontab ain't me! <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-21 17:00 +0100
          Re: MY crontab ain't me! Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-21 18:30 +0100
            Re: MY crontab ain't me! <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-21 19:00 +0100
      Re: MY crontab ain't me! Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2020-12-21 17:10 +0100
        Re: MY crontab ain't me! tomas@tuxteam.de - 2020-12-21 19:00 +0100

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