Setting up Alerts in SharePoint

Hi, i am running MOSS 2007 on a Windows 2003 box. I need to know what configuration must be done to get Alerts to work. SMTP and that stuff.

What am i missing because when i create my alert it creates it but it does not send the email to show me that something changed in my document library or on any document it self.

I did install the Email Services under Windows Components and the SMTP under IIS. In my SharePoint Central Admin i did change my settings in Outgoing and incoming email settings ( Under the Topology and Services section ).

What else am i missing?

Please Help Etienne

From stackoverflow

• Did you setup the Web Application Outgoing E-mail Settings in your Central Administration? Y

  Etienne : Yes i did.........

• I don't think this question is really appropriate for StackOverflow - its not a programming question, see the FAQ.

  But anyway - could be anti-virus or smtp relay rules stopping sharepoint sending smtp to your mail server. Try this tool to diagnose.

  http://www.simplecomtools.com/smtptesttool.html

  If that doesn't work then its MS support - the newsgroups are littered with the carcasses of people trying to resolve alert email problems!

  Etienne : Thank you for the reply but i undertand regards to the "its not a programming question" but then they must not allow SharePoint to be a Tag since most of SharePoint is configuration anyways!!

• Has the SMTP server been configured to allow the MOSS server to relay mail to it?

• Ensure that you have configured the SMTP server properly by configuring an account and associating to a mail client Outlook. Check the Servers outgoing and incoming capabilites from the mail client first.

  Ensure that you have subscribed to the alerts properly in a list

• Etienne,

  It might be worth your while to repost this question over on ServerFault. This question seems like it would be more in keeping with their knowledge base.

  Etienne : Thanks, will do....as you can see i asked this question 6 months ago. So that was before ServerFault was there. :)

  Onorio Catenacci : @Etienne -- my answer was meant to be helpful - not a criticism.