Transactional Emails are instant OR they are based on cron file?

Question

I have a magento website setup and development is also almost completed, but i am bit confused about transactional emails.

If a customer buy something from my webiste, does magento sends the email on INSTANT BASES. Or does it wait for the cron to execute on its specified time.?

I need this clarification before i hunt for something else.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

In the latest magento version, magento has introduce new feature of processing the order confirmation email in a queue, so we must have to configure cron.php to call every 5 minutes in order to make this scheduled task work properly.

This cron.php file indirectly calls the cron.sh file which you will find in the webroot directory of your magento site.

More info here