# Stop cron emails
Source: https://docs.webgee.com/en/hosting/how-do-i-stop-suppress-cron-emails-from-being-sent-or-logged



Stop receiving an email every time a cron job runs. Applies to shared, reseller
and Premium hosting.

Cron emails you anything a job prints. A job running every five minutes that
prints a single line produces nearly 300 emails a day, and they quickly become
noise nobody reads — which means a real failure goes unnoticed too.

## Discard everything [#discard-everything]

Append to the command:

```bash
0 2 * * * /home/cpaneluser/backup.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
```

* `> /dev/null` sends normal output (`STDOUT`) nowhere.
* `2>&1` sends errors (`STDERR`) to the same place.

Together they silence the job completely.

## Better: keep the errors [#better-keep-the-errors]

Discarding errors too means a broken job fails silently, and you find out when
something downstream is missing.

```bash
0 2 * * * /home/cpaneluser/backup.sh > /dev/null
```

This discards normal output but still emails you anything written to `STDERR` —
silence when it works, a message when it does not. That is usually what you
want.

## Or route them elsewhere [#or-route-them-elsewhere]

The **Cron Email** field at the top of cPanel's Cron Jobs page sets where all
cron output goes. Point it at a mailbox you can filter rather than your main
address.

Clearing the field entirely disables cron email for the account — including
genuine errors, so prefer per-job redirection.

<Callout type="info">
  Cron emails count towards your
  [sending limits](/en/email/email-sending-limits) and consume disk space in the
  destination mailbox. Several noisy jobs can produce thousands of messages a
  month.
</Callout>

## If they keep arriving [#if-they-keep-arriving]

* **The redirection is in the wrong place.** It must be at the end of the whole
  command, after any arguments.
* **The job writes to `STDERR`.** With `> /dev/null` alone, errors still arrive —
  which is the intended behaviour. Add `2>&1` if you want silence regardless.
* **A wrapper script is sending its own mail**, independently of cron.

## Related [#related]

* [Manage cron jobs](/en/hosting/managing-cron-jobs-in-cpanel)
* [Email sending limits](/en/email/email-sending-limits)