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Hello could anyone help me to resolve my order email problem, i am struggling with setting up cron job in hostgator, currently i am running on shared plan, as per hostgator, in shared service plans PHP version 5.4 is installed.

and i have installed Magento CE 1.9.1.0.

i have tried following two commends from the cpanel and scheduled it for 15 mins.

/opt/php55/bin/php -q /homedirectory/username/public_html/cron.php

/opt/php54/bin/php -q /homedirectory/username/public_html/cron.php

and i am not receiving order emails :(.

other than scheduling cron.php from magento, is there anything else i need to do in the magento itself inorder to receive emails? ( i have already enabled and setup "order email" in "Sales email" tab)

Also i confirm order emails are going in core_email_queue table.

Thank you in advance for any helps..

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  • Does it work when you run the cron.php directly, like http://www.yoursite.com/cron.php?
    – seanbreeden
    Feb 7, 2015 at 12:13
  • No it does not work, it opens a blank page, but the cron.php did not send the email. i also made sure is the cron.php is really called by the hosting schedules by renaming the cron.php file as cronnnn.php, then i received a email saying file cannot be open, so i am sure hosting is running the cron.php file as scheduled..
    – Helmey Hussain
    Feb 7, 2015 at 13:17
  • Create a php file called pi.php (or whatever) and run <?php phpinfo(); Check the disable_functions line to make sure mail isn't in there. If it is then you'll need to set up SMTP in Magento's admin.
    – seanbreeden
    Feb 7, 2015 at 13:22
  • Have you contacted HostGator to see if they're intentionally blocking outgoing mail? I know some shared accounts will do this to prevent people from signing up to send spam.
    – seanbreeden
    Feb 7, 2015 at 13:23
  • Ok i will try to do that, pi.php sould be the copy of cron.php? and regarding running <?php phpinfo() directly from the command prompt and checking diable_function, i need to figure out how to do, i am really new to this.., but anyway thank you for your comments, i will try your hints and then come back..
    – Helmey Hussain
    Feb 7, 2015 at 13:31

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That sounds like a reasonable course of action to take. The consensus seems to be that something has to be wrong with your cron.

If clearing the queue doesn't make the e-mails start sending then there's a thread on here that I found that has some suggestions.

New order email confirmation not being sent

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  • Yes i tried that before by removing the code which is sending the emails to the queue and emails start going on instant click instead of going into the queue... but i did not want to deviate from magneto way of sending emails. Installing AOE_SCHEDULER really helped to see the status and to run the job manually, etc.
    – Helmey Hussain
    Feb 7, 2015 at 16:17
  • Agreed. It's always best to adhere to Magento standards.
    – seanbreeden
    Feb 7, 2015 at 16:20
  • I have one wired guess, From the AOE schedule i can see this script core_email_queue_send_all is getting scheduled for every one minute inside the magento, can also check from the cron expression */1 * * * *, whereas from the server it could be actually */5 * * * * or */15 * * * *, Probably this could be an issue?
    – Helmey Hussain
    Feb 7, 2015 at 16:23

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