You need to configure IPN (Instant Payment Notification) in your PayPal account as described in the article Using PayPal Standard. IPN is a server to server post that PayPal makes to your site so it doesn't depend on the user coming back to the site. PDT (Payment Data Transfer) is the notification that occurs if the user does come back to the site but IPN happens in all cases if configured. And whichever notification indicates that payment has cleared will trigger the confirmation email.

You can try it out in our store, if you buy a product or buy me a beer, you will get an email confirmation once payment is received even without clicking the link to come back to the site ;-D

Hope that helps,

Joe

Hi,

Things I would check.

Look under Store Manager > Order History, view the order detail and the PayPal log will show if it received any IPN notifications. If you see IPN notifications in the log then it probably really is just an email problem but if not then you probably don't have IPN configured correctly.

For email problems, I would first make sure you get it working in other features like the contact form. See Email Configuration.

Also make sure you have configured the from address in Store Settings. You might laos look in the mojoPortal l under Administration > System Log to see if there are any email related errors being logged.

Hope that helps,

Joe