Goldmail, nogoldmail Channel Options

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Gold-Mail compatible read receipts (PMDF on OpenVMS) (goldmail, nogoldmail)

On OpenVMS systems, the Gold-Mail mail user agent, a product of Data Processing Design, Inc., is a commonly used replacement for VMS MAIL.

Gold-Mail provides some added functionality that is not available in regular VMS MAIL. In particular, Gold-Mail supports read receipts. PMDF is capable of converting its own read receipt requests into a format that is compatible with Gold-Mail. In order to activate this feature, the goldmail channel option should be used on the channel that delivers mail to Gold-Mail. This is usually the local channel, although it is possible for Gold-Mail delivery to be done on d or mail_ channels in some configurations.

The nogoldmail channel option disables this feature. nogoldmail is the default.