Override MAILTO for a single crontab entry

Question

We have a role account at work that has a pretty big crontab. Its MAILTO is pointed at a shared address, so that a number of us get notified if something fails.

I'd like to add an entry to this crontab, but I only want myself to be notified if something goes wrong. Is there a way to change MAILTO for this one entry, or otherwise accomplish my goal?

Answer 1

ORIGMAILTO="$MAILTO"
MAILTO=you
* * * ...  your cron job
MAILTO="$ORIGMAILTO"

I think that works... Otherwise, you can always just do

MAILTO=you
* * * ...  your cron job
MAILTO=normal.destination

Answer 2

You can always pipe all output to the mail command with the correct address in a subshell. As long as there is nothing on STDOUT or STDERR cron will not send the email

10 * * * * sh -c 'thisonecommand 2>&1 | mail otheraddress@foo.com'

Answer 3

I cant recall if cron pre parses the file to read in the environment vars, so im not sure if you can change MAILTO multiple times in a single file. but you can always split it to another file and put it in /etc/cron.d/foo with a MAILTO=some@email.tld