Q:

Order email not working in CE 1.9 in hostgator shared hosting plan

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..

A:

(Continued from the Question comments)
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

