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You can manage alerts by enabling or disabling alerts for the virtual servers and specifying the number of alerts that users can create. You can also specify how often (between 1 and 59 minutes) the server sends out immediate alerts and when users receive daily and weekly alerts.
When enabling or disabling alerts, remember the following:
When specifying the interval for sending immediate alerts, keep the following in mind:
You can view alerts for a top-level Web site and delete alerts that are no longer needed. You can manage alerts for top-level Web sites only, not for subsites: Alert data for subsites is stored along with the alert data for the parent top-level Web site.
If you are a server administrator or a member of the SharePoint administrators group, you can also use the Stsadm.exe command-line tool to configure alert settings . Using the command line, you can do the following:
Alerts use the Windows SharePoint Services e-mail settings to send alert items. When you configure alert settings, be sure that you also verify the e-mail settings for your virtual server. For more information, see Specify e-mail settings.
Important When you remove a user from a site after he or she has create alerts, you must manually delete any alerts that he or she has set up. This is also true for any lists or libraries where you change security settings to limit access. If a user has set up alerts for the list or library, he or she will continue to receive them after you change the security settings. It is important to delete these alerts to prevent unauthorized users from having access to site and user information.