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I am willing to do the work to configure this, but I want to make sure I'm not wasting my time. Does anyone know if CiviMail will run on hostgator shared?  It does not have a few of the components explicitly listed, but I do have the ability to setup cron jobs, etc.  I'm willing to do the work but I'm reading conflicting things about whether the server itself is compatible.

Here's what Hostgator says they have...

 Apache
   
2.2.22
PHP
   
5.2.17 and 5.3.15
(dual environment)
Perl
   
5.8.8
MySQL
   
5.5.21 or higher
JSP
   
Available only on dedicated and VPS
cPanel
   
11.32.x - auto updated to latest version
GD / Image Magic
   
6.6.3

All shared and reseller accounts come with:

    Linux x86 CentOS 6 (a free version of RedHat) 64-bit Operating System

    All shared and reseller servers have now been upgraded to CentOS6, a 64 bit Operating System.
    Kernel - latest stable release, updated as needed
    Dual Xeon E5520 2.26 GHz Quad Core Processors
    Apache 2.2.x , (includes mod_rewrite and mod_security) in a SuExec environment
    Outgoing email (SMTP) = Exim 4.x (Exim)
    Incoming email (POP3 and IMAP) = Dovecot 1.x (Dovecot)
    WHM 11.32.x
    cPanel 11.32.x
    PHP 5.2.x and 5.3.x , PHP is run as CGI (not Apache/DSO) in a suPHP environment
    Zend Optimizer 3.3.9
    PEAR 1.7.x
    ionCube 4.2.2
    ionCube Loader 4.0.12
    GnuPG 1.2.6
    GD2 Library 2.0.34
    openSSL 0.9.8t (for PHP)
    SOAP
    PHP Modules - full list
    phpMyAdmin 3.2.4
    MySQL Database 5.5.x
    Chilisoft 4.0.2L (no longer available)
    ROR Ruby Version : 1.8.7 , Gem Version : 1.4.2 , Rails Version : 2.3.14
    cURL 7.15.x (also libcurl and PHP/CURL)
    PERL 5.8.x , PCRE Library Version 7.8
    Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3 (Use the version number in the binary when executing. i.e. python3, python2.6)
    ImageMagick 6.6.x
    Ghostscript 8.15.x
    Rsync
    RoundCube 0.2b, SquirrelMail 1.4.13, Horde 3.1.7p8
    Sitebuilder 4.5.0, Site Studio 1.6RC3 (upon request)
    Fantastico Scripts [see versions]: Blogs (WordPress), CMS (Drupal Hosting and Joomla), Discussion Boards (phpBB Hosting), Shopping Carts (Magento Hosting), Image Galleries, php Mailing List, Sitebuilders, Wiki Hosting

I'm working on setting up the cron jobs now, but the instructions keep referring to Drupal a lot more than joomla...so when it's talking about making drupal users I'm not sure if the same holds true for joomla

So what is the deal with the params -sdefault ?  If that is the drupal setting, what do I put there for joomla?

Try the wget method a bit farther down the page perhaps.