The Email Notification Format dialog box displays the notification format of the email that is sent to a user or a user group when there is a quota-related issue (soft limit breached or hard limit reached).
The email notification is sent only when the following user or user group quota events are generated: User or Group Quota Disk Space Soft Limit Breached, User or Group Quota File Count Soft Limit Breached, User or Group Quota Disk Space Hard Limit Reached, or User or Group Quota File Count Hard Limit Reached.
- From
- Displays the email address from which the email is sent, which can be modified. By default, this is the email address that is specified under Notification in the General Settings area of the Setup Options dialog box.
- Subject
- Displays the subject of the notification email.
- Email Details
- Displays the text of the notification email. You can modify the text based on your requirements. For example, you can provide information related to the quota attributes and reduce the number of keywords. However, you should not modify the keywords.
Valid keywords are as follows:
- $EVENT_NAME
Specifies the event name that caused the email notification.
- $QUOTA_TARGET
Specifies the qtree or volume on which the quota is applicable.
- $QUOTA_USED_PERCENT
Specifies the percentage of disk hard limit, disk soft limit, file hard limit, or file soft limit that is used by the user or user group.
- $QUOTA_LIMIT
Specifies the disk hard limit or file hard limit that is reached by the user or user group and one of the following events is generated:
- User or Group Quota Disk Space Hard Limit Reached
- User or Group Quota Disk Space Soft Limit Reached
- User or Group Quota File Count Hard Limit Reached
- User or Group Quota File Count Soft Limit Reached
- $QUOTA_USED
Specifies the disk space used or the number of files created by the user or user group.
- $QUOTA_USER
Specifies the user or user group name.
Command buttons
The command buttons enable you to preview, save, or cancel the changes made to the email notification format:
- Preview
- Displays a preview of the notification email.
- Restore to Factory Defaults
- Enables you to restore the notification format to the factory default values.
- Save
- Saves the changes made to the notification format.
- Save and Close
- Saves the changes made to the notification format and closes the Email Notification Format dialog box.
- Cancel
- Cancels the recent changes and closes the Email Notification Format dialog box.