Magento not sending order confirmation emails to admin

Try a workarround:

in CMS > SALES EMAILS Set Order > Sent Emails via seperate Mail (BCC is Buggy)

Magento know this bug and will fix in 2.0.

Three days were spent investigating and addressing those hiccups, and I can now share my newly found knowledge of the possible problems arising from updating Magento to 1.9.

First of all, Magento 1.9+ relies completely on cron jobs to send transactional emails. If you didn’t have cron jobs set up properly before, you are going to have to do it now.

First of all make sure you have set up cron tasks in the Magento admin under System > Configuration > Advanced > System > Cron. The default settings are:

Generate Schedules Every: 15
Schedule Ahead for: 20
Missed if Not Run Within: 15
History Cleanup Every: 10
Success History Lifetime: 60
Failure History Lifetime: 600

There are people suggesting these settings should be changed, but since they can’t seem to agree on the best combination, I’d rather leave it as it is.

You then need to go into your hosting control panel and set up cron jobs. In cPanel it’s under Advanced > Cron Jobs. Set them up to run every five minutes and use this command:

php -f /home/username/public_html/cron.php

Check that the above path is correct and that the file cron.php is actually there in the root of your Magento installation (if you’ve just upgraded, it should be). Change username to the correct account.

Now, I initially made the mistake of following the advice of the developers at xtento.com who say to use a wget command string: wget -O /dev/null -q http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/PATH_TO_MAGENTO/cron.php.

This did not work for me at all, whereas the php command did, so my advice is: stick with that.

Order confirmation emails were not sending to customer or us. Checked cron jobs under cpanel and it was empty. My test site worked fine so checked cron jobs to find this setting and instantly 60 emails came in once I set it in live site. Hope this helps someone, drove me crazy.

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Command: php /home/username/public_html/cron.php > /dev/null