Magento cron doesnt send email at all

Question

I have a magento installation (1.9.2.3) on a Bitnami AWS instance, I am trying to use the SMTP Pro extension ( source ) and use the Amazon SES feature. When I run the self-test it works and send the email from and to the configured emails.

But the magento installation cant send emails at all.

• I tried to run either cron.php or cron.sh , without any error, but without any apparent consequence.
• sendmail is installed and working
• Amazon SES credentials working

cronjob is irrelevant at this point since It doesnt do anything.

Can someone help me?

Answer 1

Try this, I think it'll work.

in the file

app/code/core/Mage/Sales/Model/Order.php

Change

$mailer->setQueue($emailQueue)->send();

to

$mailer->send();

Answer 2

Magento fails to send email to some domain as i had experience in past. in order to fix that i had used Smtp pro extension which fixes many of the issues as it uses smtp protocol