Notification when receiver is out of PM storage?

[pipskicks]

I know this is asking for a lot, just wondering since I spent quite a while today writing at least 2 PM's that weren't completely necessary, just spent the time writing them, and then the people I was sending to were out of PM space!

I get the lure of the contribution adding space as well and think that should stay as that costs money, literally. But I am wondering for us with space being good, we write a message and it can't go through, it gets frustrating! Any chance we could get a notice before sending a message that they are out of space?


I've never seen this before, just got pretty darn frustrated today trying to send a couple of messages to people with no space!

[AABCDS]

You could always send a test PM to check to see if that member has space but there's always the chance that the test PM fills that person's inbox.

[jamesspo]

That would be tough to implement in a flawless way, as it's a basically a race condition. Unless there is a lock placed on the other person's mailbox right at the moment that you send, it's always possible someone else is sending at the same time, and thus fills the mailbox. I doubt the vBulletin software implements that level of locking, but who knows. The admins will have to speak up on that.

[pipskicks]

That would be tough to implement in a flawless way, as it's a basically a race condition. Unless there is a lock placed on the other person's mailbox right at the moment that you send, it's always possible someone else is sending at the same time, and thus fills the mailbox. I doubt the vBulletin software implements that level of locking, but who knows. The admins will have to speak up on that.

Didn't think about that, at the very best I guess if they are being bombarded there is just about no way to alert you if it fills while you're writing the message.

I guess then for those that leave it full still it would help. Maybe it could lock us out from sending a message, won't be flawless but it would probably save some time.

Figure with test messages so often it would get REALLY annoying lol.

[ouch]

Rosewood... mahogany... teak?

[jamesspo]

I think I need some tea, as this just zinged right over my head. I'm sure I'll get it here in a bit :)

Rosewood... mahogany... teak?

[turtle]

A good habit to get into before posting a BST ad is to clear out your PM box (down to zero).

Should be as important as putting up pics of what you have for sale.

[Kentos]

Have your sent PM's saved so you can cut and paste your original message and send it at a later date.