"Bill Sandiford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Is there a way to bounce someones message and still send them a
> confirmation request.  Basically, I don't want to hold messages on
> the server.

Not currently.  I think you might be the first person who has ever
requested this of TMDA.

> "Your message has been returned to you because you have not confirmed
> your address.  Reply to this message and you will be added to my list
> of confirmed addresses.  You will only have to do this once!"
>
> after confirming they get a message back that says
>
> "Thankyou, your address has been confirmed.  Please resend your
> original message"

Think carefully about what you are asking of a new sender who wants to
communicate with you:

- They have to send you 3 messages (the original, the ack, and the
  resend).

- They might not save outgoing messages, which means they'll either
  have to re-compose, or cut and paste from the TMDA challenge (which
  preserves their original).

Yuck.

> The reason that I want to do this is to avoid large amounts of mail
> building in the pending queue.

IMO, this isn't a good enough reason to inconvenience the sender like
this.  Disk is dirt cheap these days.  Text incurs very little
storage.  

I receive a great deal of spam and use the default timeout interval of
14 days, and my pending queue consumes only ~6MB of disk space.  If
you receive less spam, and lower the timeout interval, you'll use even
less.

In general, TMDA sacrifices network resources for sender convenience
because computational resources are abundant, and humans are fickle.
Otherwise, we might as well do everything at the SMTP level.
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