I've tried everything suggested and I can not for the life of me get notification or alerts to work. I'm going back to square one to ask this: Since I am using the single-user (and free) version of OnTime, am I even able to add Notifications and/or alerts?

 I would like to have an alert sent whenever I add or change a defect sent to my boss. I've tried setting him up as a customer so that I could get him on my list, but I am unable to get the email accounts setup. I do not have a local POP3 server. I do have an IMAP (Lotus Notes/Domino) server, but apparently OnTime does not support that. I did install the OnTime Services package after reading that it enabled polling POP accounts, but the only POP accounts I have access are the free ones such as gmail, hotmail, or Yahoo, but none of those work. I even signed up at Safe-mail.net and Axigen.com both of which looked promising, but neither worked.

 
What can I do? This is feature important to me. If I knew how to setup my own email server (would that even work?) I would try that. (My ignorance may be showing here, so forgive me.)

 Thanks.