Alerts are not working

If your alerts stop working below you will find the solution that works for me. Also I have created a custom handler to take care of the 70 character

stsadm -o updatealerttemplates -url -f “c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\XML\alerttemplates.xml” -LCID 2057″

1. stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname alerts-enabled -propertyvalue false -url
2. stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname alerts-enabled -propertyvalue true -url
3. stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname job-immediate-alerts -propertyvalue “every 5 minutes”  -url