[CentOS] use of MAILTO variable in crontab

James B. Byrne

byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca
Wed Jul 13 18:37:37 UTC 2011


I want to do something like this:

30 2 * * * MAILTO=testaddr at harte-lyne.ca; echo "this should be mailed"

I have searched extensively and from what I have read I believe that
this should work.  But evidently I misapprehend how cron and MAILTO
is supposed to work as my example does not cause any mail to be sent
as far as I can determine from maillog.

How does one specify unique MAILTOs for different cron jobs where
the desired recipient is not the user that runs the cron job?

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