SharePoint Services email configuration

Hello,

I have a problem with my recent sharepoint services 2.0 sp 1 installation
and was hoping someone could help me out since I've tried other groups on the
net but with no real help. Any how I've got this install up and operational
except for one problem email notification to do not work! I am running this
install with W2k3 server and MSSQL 2000sp3 and the mail server I'm using is
Exchange 2k3. I have used the sps admin pages to configure my SMTP email
server settings, but for some reason I'm getting this error page "...user
have been successfully added, but there was a problem sending the
email...email may not be configured correctly...". Has anyone seen something
like this? I've been troubleshooting this for the past week now and I am at a
loss with it. I don't want to scrap the install yet..... Please help? Any
suggestions, thought, ideas would be appreciated..

Thanks

Brad
Thu Apr 28 13:41:23 CDT 2005

Can you provide us with the email server settings you entered in SharePoint?

"dpgangel" <dpgangel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:617EB55B-8FB8-4290-BEB0-6D07CADCEBB2@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with my recent sharepoint services 2.0 sp 1 installation
> and was hoping someone could help me out since I've tried other groups on
> the
> net but with no real help. Any how I've got this install up and
> operational
> except for one problem email notification to do not work! I am running
> this
> install with W2k3 server and MSSQL 2000sp3 and the mail server I'm using
> is
> Exchange 2k3. I have used the sps admin pages to configure my SMTP email
> server settings, but for some reason I'm getting this error page "...user
> have been successfully added, but there was a problem sending the
> email...email may not be configured correctly...". Has anyone seen
> something
> like this? I've been troubleshooting this for the past week now and I am
> at a
> loss with it. I don't want to scrap the install yet..... Please help? Any
> suggestions, thought, ideas would be appreciated..
>
> Thanks

Hollis
Thu Apr 28 15:32:11 CDT 2005

In article <617EB55B-8FB8-4290-BEB0-6D07CADCEBB2@microsoft.com>,
=?Utf-8?B?ZHBnYW5nZWw=?= wrote:
> I am running this
> install with W2k3 server and MSSQL 2000sp3 and the mail server I'm using is
> Exchange 2k3. I have used the sps admin pages to configure my SMTP email
> server settings, but for some reason I'm getting this error page "...user
> have been successfully added, but there was a problem sending the
> email...email may not be configured correctly...". Has anyone seen something
> like this? I've been troubleshooting this for the past week now and I am at a
> loss with it. I don't want to scrap the install yet..... Please help? Any
> suggestions, thought, ideas would be appreciated..
>
I was getting this message and I was not getting any alerts. Then it was
pointed out that alerts would not work unless profiles were imported, MySites
enabled, the timer service running, and MySites created for individuals wanting
alerts. So, I started putting all that together. I had a problem with one
client logging in with the other client's credentials because I had used that
once and WinXP had saved it. Deleted the wrong credential, created the second
my site. I was just about to work through some suggestions that Wei-Dong XU had
made to find out why alerts weren't working, when they miraculously started
appearing! So, get the profiles imported, and set up the MySites, and see if
you start getting messages out. It seems that SPPS needs to get the email
addresses from the profiles, even though it really knows how to get them from
the address book.

Hollis D. Paul [MVP - Outlook]
Hollis@outhousebythesound.com
Mukilteo, WA USA