It’s very common practice the administrators to get notification mail when a new order is placed on the shop. Here is how to activate this feature in Magento for free (there is paid Admin Notification Module as well):
Log in into admin area, then go to System->Configuration menu. Scroll down to Sales section and click on the Sales Emails and select the first section Orders. Enter your admin e-mail in the field “Send Order Email Copy To”.
And here comes the tricky one 
Select the option “Separate email” from the “Send Order Email Copy Method” field. I don’t know why, but if it’s selected “Bcc”, the e-mail to the admin wasn’t send.
It’s possible that this is fixed in the versions above 1.2.x, but I haven’t tested.
hope this helps someone.
Thanks this was def helpful! Didn’t notice that field.
very helpful indeed!
Hi,
I have a slight problem with this. Its funny but I never get the admin emails when an order is placed. Instead I always wait for the PayPal email or just have a look in the dashboard.
email copies are sent as “separate email” and not as “Bcc”.
Thanks
This article should help then, because I have the same requirement from my client
Just now wondered about this, you helped me fix the issue 2 minutes after I knew I had it.
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That was great help!!
thanks!
so simple so bloody frustrating. Well done and thank you.
I have broken my brain with it =)
Really useful and simple solution
Thanks Nik!
Thanks for that, quite simple but took ages to find on our system. Now we’re inundated with emails on our Tshirt website
Hi,
thanks for sharing this tip, but I havea slightly different problem and maybe you can help or have an idea.
When I’m enabling the ordermail system-> configuration -> Sales Email -> Order
both the customer and the admin get the same email.
But I just want the admin to get the email because theres another backend sending the emails to the customer.
hello nik, thanks for the tip. will try it out, for the moment I am still struggling with the “normal” email notifications. my question is: by default, who is mgento sending an email to when an order is placed? I am recieving none… thanks for help,. andreas
Hello nik,
nik you give a simple solution to this problem but here is one more problem.
before select separate email option email was sent to customer but not to admin but after select this it’s just doing opposite….now email are send to admin but not to customer
pls give some solution
Hi agam garg,
I am not fan of Magento and I am not working with Magento anymore, so I cannot help you.
sorry.
Hi,
This post is very useful to me.but now i am in critical situation.
that means now the sales emails are not controled by admin.the files are hardcoded.
i dont know how to change sender id in that mail.
i searched all files but no use.
can you tell,which file sending shipping mails.i want to edit that mail function.please help
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great alternative to the extensions