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SET NOON, MAIL, and EXDISKQUOTA?

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The Question is:

 
In a COM file I send mail to users telling the
status of the job after it's done.  Sometimes a
users home space is full and the mail command
bombs the job so I put the NOON command before
the MAIL command.  This seems to work most of
the time but occasionaly it won't.  When it works
I get the following and the job continues as I
want:
 
%MAIL-E-SENDERR, error sending to user J_FLAHERTY
-MAIL-E-OPENOUT, error opening !AS as output
-RMS-E-CRE, ACP file create failed
-SYSTEM-F-EXDISQUOTA, disk quota exceeded
 
When the NOON command doesn't work I get the
following and the job aborts:
 
%MAIL-E-SENDERR, error sending to user C_BOTTORFF
-MAIL-W-WRITEERR, error writing USER_DISK:[CBUSANAL.C_BOTTORFF]MAIL.MAI
-RMS-E-EXT, ACP file extend failed
-SYSTEM-F-EXDISQUOTA, disk quota exceeded
 
Jim
 
 

The Answer is :

 
  SET NOON and the processing within the sending DCL command procedure
  is not a factor -- SET NOON prevents termination of the execution of
  the command procedure, and does not control the success or failure
  due to such factors as the receiver's available disk quota.
 
  Ensure that the target username has sufficient quota on the login device
  for that user -- certain utilities will retry an I/O write attempt on
  insufficient quota (thus using the overdraft), but if the target user
  is completely overdrawn, the attempt to send MAIL can, will, and should
  fail.
 
  That said, very short (less than three blocks) or even one-line or
  subject-line-only MAIL messages are more likely to succeed than longer
  MAIL messages, when low quotas are a potential consideration.  This is
  due to the way that MAIL decides to store messages in the MAIL.MAI file
  or in seperate mail files.
 

  

     

     
answer written or last revised on ( 19-JUL-1999 )
     
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