cron job email customization

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Published on 2010-05-26T19:10:50Z Indexed on 2010/05/26 19:22 UTC
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I have a list of cronjobs where some executes daily and others execute very 15 minutes. I do want to receive an email for the ones executed daily, but wants email disabled for the ones executing every 15 minutes(or maybe receive a daily email), is there a way to do this in crontab?

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