If you create a new job, assign it the smtp notification recipient to it, you do not receive notifications? I agree if your test is working you should get it.
Just to be sure, verify everything remains selected and the alert catagories property page has the "send notifications" checkbox selected. (it can be deselected even if recipients still are checked to receive notifications for the alert)
Daylight savings apparently has the ability to erase the checkboxes related to notifications in jobs, so double check any scheduled jobs you have.