Answers.Body: <p>If you want to record the person indicating their opting-in or opting-out then you could consider using an Activity for this purpose.</p>
  
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Body: <p>It looks like there are two options for indicating that an email address in on hold.  Is there a way to add another option?  If so, how would I go about doing that? </p>
  
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Comments.Text: Can you clarify the use case you are dealing with?
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Comments.Text: The current idea is to use the On Hold? option to help mitigate against unwanted emails going out in light of the upcoming due date for GDPR.  I want to make sure that email comms do not go out to contacts who have not opted in for various newsletters.  Yes, there is a chance that we could use the recent extension, [link](https://civicrm.org/extensions/gdpr) but I want to make extra certain that various staff around the world don't inadvertently communicate with these contacts because they don't know about GDPR.  I'd like to keep the opt-in/out information separate from the normal opt-out.
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Comments.Text: So you are thinking of an "On Hold - not opted-in" type option? TBH I have no idea how you would address that.
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Comments.Text: Yes, I was thinking of an option similar to that. Do you have any other ideas on how I could prohibit any emails going to a contact short of deleting the email address?
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Comments.Text: Use the Do Not Email option in Comm Preferences?
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Comments.Text: Yes, that would accomplish the same purposes in preventing communication but I'm also wanting to keep track of the date in which a contact communicates this preference.
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Title: Email On Hold? options
ThreadText: # Email On Hold? options
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-05-02)
  
  It looks like there are two options for indicating that an email address in on hold. Is there a way to add another option? If so, how would I go about doing that?
  
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  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Can you clarify the use case you are dealing with?  
  > **username_0**: The current idea is to use the On Hold? option to help mitigate against unwanted emails going out in light of the upcoming due date for GDPR.  I want to make sure that email comms do not go out to contacts who have not opted in for various newsletters.  Yes, there is a chance that we could use the recent extension, [link](https://civicrm.org/extensions/gdpr) but I want to make extra certain that various staff around the world don't inadvertently communicate with these contacts because they don't know about GDPR.  I'd like to keep the opt-in/out information separate from the normal opt-out.  
  > **username_1**: So you are thinking of an "On Hold - not opted-in" type option? TBH I have no idea how you would address that.  
  > **username_0**: Yes, I was thinking of an option similar to that. Do you have any other ideas on how I could prohibit any emails going to a contact short of deleting the email address?  
  > **username_1**: Use the Do Not Email option in Comm Preferences?  
  > **username_0**: Yes, that would accomplish the same purposes in preventing communication but I'm also wanting to keep track of the date in which a contact communicates this preference.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2018-05-03. Score: 0
  
  If you want to record the person indicating their opting-in or opting-out then you could consider using an Activity for this purpose.
  
  
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