I'm trying to set up alert emails for a blog but am having trouble figuring out how it knows what email to send to. Once I set up SMTP I started getting error messages that I didn't have an email address when I tried to sign up for alerts which made sense since I had never set it anywhere. My initial thought was that I could just go into my profile and find an email field and fill it out. Alas, the contact information does not include an email field (yet hilariously does include a fax field). I've found a way to set a user's email through Central Administration but I want the user to be able to set their own email. Is it possible to have this added as a field in the user's profile under Contact Information that the alerts will be smart enough to use?
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- Is this SharePoint Foundation or Server?user6024– user60242013-11-01 00:19:17 +00:00Commented Nov 1, 2013 at 0:19
- SharePoint ServerFenoec– Fenoec2013-11-01 14:30:39 +00:00Commented Nov 1, 2013 at 14:30
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I had the same issue this steps helped me to solve the issue
http://ittechnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/cannot-sign-up-for-alerts-because-you.html
- 1Please add a summary of the steps outlined in the blog post to your answer. Link-only answers tend to lose their usefulness over time as links have a tendency to break.Phil Greer– Phil Greer2014-10-14 19:52:17 +00:00Commented Oct 14, 2014 at 19:52
- This site is not for promoting your own blog posts. Please add more details to your answers now and in the future!Robert Lindgren– Robert Lindgren2014-10-14 19:55:32 +00:00Commented Oct 14, 2014 at 19:55