in the Central Admin. I saw the "immediate Alerts" is successed but the "Started" is 4/21/2010 I think the "immediate Alerts" is not really starting how can I enable it i found out even I have create alert, but my sql table "ImmedSubscriptions" is empty already done this stsadm.exe -o setproperty -url <http://yourserver/problemsite> -pn alerts-enabled -pv true stsadm.exe -o setproperty -url <http://yourserver/problemsite > -pn job-immediate-alerts -pv "every 5 minutes" And restart time server stsadm -o updatealerttemplates -url http://testserver -f "c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\XML\alerttemplates.xml" -LCID 1033 And I am using host header mode. is it realted to that