Hello, The only users I have available are the NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE and VPC\Administrator, neither of which I can associate an email to. I've set-up my virtual smtp on IIS and can send myself an email to my Outlook 2007 from within Outlook, but cannot generate test emails from Sharepoint to Outlook until I create an user with an email. I've also double checked to make sure my immediate alerts service is running in Timer Job Definitions and Timer Job Status, both which look ok. Can someone please show me how I can create either an authenticated or non-authenticated user with an email so I can test simple email alerts from a task list and from a basic Sharepoint Designer 2007 workflow I need to implement. Thanks, Bruce

You just need to setup the central admin settings: Start here: http://www.trainsignaltraining.com/3-easy-steps-to-get-email-alerts-and-rss-feeds-in-sharepoint/2007-10-22/ If you're doing it for 2010, start here: http://sharepointgeorge.com/2010/configuring-outgoing-email-sharepoint-2010/ I trust that answers your question... Thanks C http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog

Hi Cornelius, Thank you for you prompt reply. Yes, I've gone through the steps as outlined in the page at the link you provided previously and again just to make sure I didn;t miss anything, however, I am hitting the same problem when I try to set up a new alert on a list: "The following users do not have e-mail addresses specified: BRUCEVPC\Administrator. Alerts have been created successfully but these users will not receive e-mail notifications until valid e-mail addresses have been provided" Set my e-mail address... Then, when I try to set my e-mail address, it takes me to the profile for the system account, but with no options to edit or add an email: Home > My Sharepoint Sandbox > People and Groups > User Information > Edit Personal Settings IT only shows me: Attach File Account SHAREPOINT\system Created at 1/2/2009 2:31 PM by System Account Last modified at 1/2/2009 2:31 PM by System Account What am I missing here? Any help would be greatly apprecdiated. Thanks, Bruce One more thing, I have three accounts setup: BRUCEVPC\ADMINISTRATOR NT AUTHORITY\AUTHENTICATED USERS NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE System Account - SHAREPOINT\System And for some reason no matter which one of these I enter into the "Send Alerts To" in the New Alert form, it sets it to the System Account. Thanks, Bruce