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I'm having some trouble getting a cron job to run for CiviMail.  We're using Drupal 6.6 and CiviCRM 2.1.1.  I've checked and double checked the key to make sure it doesn't contain any forbidden characters.  The key has been inserted into civicrm.settings.php as

define( 'CIVICRM_SITE_KEY', 'key' );
I contacted the host and when we try to run:

wget 'http://sitename/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=name&pass=pass&key=key'
we get:

wget 'http://sitename/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=name&pass=pass&key=key'
--11:55:52--  http://sitename/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=name&pass=pass&key=key
           => `civimail.cronjob.php?name=name&pass=pass&key=key.2'

Resolving sitename... ip address
Connecting to sitename|ip address|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
 
    [ <=>                                                    ] 0             --.--K/s           
 
11:55:52 (0.00 B/s) - `civimail.cronjob.php?name=name&pass=pass&key=key.2' saved [0]
The host said a file was saved, but when I checked the CiviMail report it showed that the mail had NOT been sent.

When http://sitename/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=name&pass=pass&key=key is run in a browser we get a blank white screen which I think I read was normal.

After reading this post we tried:

php "/hsphere/local/home/dir/sitename/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php" name=name pass=pass key=key
If we go to http://sitename/civicrm/mailing/queue?reset=1 in a browser the pending mail is sent, but we need an automated way to achieve this.

Any help or suggestions on where to go from here would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

Thank you for the suggestion.  I passed it on to the host, but he said they don't have curl on their system.