Sharepoint: Error: Alert has been created successfully but you will not receive notifications until valid e-mail or mobile address has been provided in your profile.

When trying to setup an alert in Sharepoint you might get the following error message.

 

How to troubleshoot this message:

•  Open My Settings in the top menu

 

• Check if the email address is listed. When the email address is missing, it won't work and we're going to fix this.

Adding an email address

• Open Active Directory Users and Computers. Select the user and add an email address.
  
  

• Central Administration > Manage service applications > User Profile Service Application 
• Click on Start Profile Synchronization
• Select Start Full Synchronization 
• After the synchronization is complete, logoff and then logon again as the user account

In the case that these actions were not sufficient you have to complete the following action

• Central Administration > Monitoring > Review Job Definitions > User Profile Service Application - User Profile to SharePoint Full Synchronization 
• After this synchronization has run, the email adresses should be in place