Redirecting stderr to stdout when piping

[StarQuake]

I know when redirecting output to a file you can do 2&1> to redirect 
stderr to stdout. But how would I redirect when want to pipe?

For example:
To also let this command mail the error messages:
#  /usr/bin/php -q -f /var/www/galvatrack/sync/unispeqs2mysql.php | 
/usr/sbin/sendmail jan at robas.com

I had to change it like this

# /usr/bin/php -q -f /var/www/galvatrack/sync/unispeqs2mysql.php &> 
/var/www/galvatrack/sync/lasttime.log; cat 
/var/www/galvatrack/sync/lasttime.log | /usr/sbin/sendmail my at address.com

But that just look horrible

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