Order confirmation Sending Emails without "Cron Job" ?

[gharaeian]

Hello,

My webhosting doesn't support Cron Job.

Is there any way to send order emails without Cron Job?

[Brent W Peterson]

Who is your hosting provider?

[gharaeian]

Does it matter? I asked them an they said they can't enable cron job for me.

Is there any solution for Magento to send emails without cronjob?

[BryanWalters]

Hello There,

It would be helpful for us to understand the issue, if you could share hosting details and the magento version you are using.

[chiefair]

Yep, Magento depends on having a periodic cron trigger to act as a clock tick for its internal cron jobs it needs to run. While you can provide this externally, it's a pretty good indicator that the hosting plan you have will never run Magento properly if they cannot provide you with a functional cron process.

[Rich Cleverley]

If emails are being sent using the standard Magento functionality then they get sent at the time of order and aren't dependent on cron. However, as others have said, hosting a Magento site on a server that won't allow cron is a bad idea as it is needed for other maintenance tasks.

[chiefair]

Order emails are queued and sent out via cron job starting somewhere in 1.9

If you want to revert back to the functionality mentioned, you have to do a module overwrite to return back to send immedately.

[tanhatariq]

@chiefair how to overwrite module to send email immediately, sending email by cron job is really sick, sometime clients get emails ages after ordering.. please help 

Regards,
Tariq web developer@YourHost

[chiefair]

Ashley Schroder's SMTP Pro module has a setting that disables the queue and reverts 1.9 to send immediately like previous versions. I'd recommend installing that instead of writing a module.

https://github.com/aschroder/Magento-SMTP-Pro-Email-Extension