Originally posted by clerick 
As stated before, I have a Hotmail account and it will not allow me to set up e-mail notification. 
 U must enter your email addy under edit profile.  The first 2 blocks there.  1 says email address, and the other says confirm email address.  After u enter your email address, MAKE Sure U click the submit modifications button at bottom.  Ater u do that, go to edit options and makesure use email notification by default is selected as yes.  Again click on submit modification.
Like I stated before, I use a hotmail account and it works fine.  Its your setup that is probably the problem.