On Sat, 16 Nov 1991 12:41:39 EST Stan Horwitz <OASIS@TEMPLEVM> said: >This exec would transfer all of the files from that userid to my class D >postmaster account. It would than receive those files into a new >notebook. This notebook would contain all of the mail sitting in that >person's reader. The exec would than send the file back to the user >along with a separate note explalining what happened. Well it's up to you since these are your users, but since you asked... This is not transparent to the user. Unless your users are technical types, they won't like it. The most commonly accepted method is to AUTOLOG the user in a way that causes him to execute the MAIL command and exit, with a way for users who don't want that (for instance because they don't use MAIL) to disable the "feature", and of course system accounts should be exempted. I remember how a critical gateway lost hundreds of pieces of mail because a well-meaning system administrator had forgotten that MAILER wasn't an end user running GONE. Anyway I don't understand why this is such a problem for you, since you are running VM/XA and you can have as many files as you want in the spool. The only thing that should matter is how many files there are in the RSCS spool, unless of course you are indeed getting close to the spool file limit defined in HCPSYS. Eric