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<title>Gentoo Mailing Lists</title>

<author title="Author">
  <mail link="lcars">Andrea Barisani</mail>
</author>
<author title="Author">
  <mail link="cybersystem">Sascha Schwabbauer</mail>
</author>
<author title="Editor">
  <mail link="curtis119">Curtis Napier</mail>
</author>
<author title="Editor">
  <mail link="klieber">Kurt Lieber</mail>
</author>
<author title="Editor">
  <mail link="robbat2">Robin H. Johnson</mail>
</author>
<author title="Editor">
  <mail link="nightmorph"/>
</author>

<abstract>
Gentoo public mailing lists
</abstract>

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<version>6.1</version>
<date>2010-09-09</date>

<chapter>
<title>Mailing Lists</title>
<section>
<body>

<p>
The Gentoo free software project has a number of public mailing lists, covering
a variety of Gentoo-related subjects. Our mailing lists are powered by <uri
link="http://mlmmj.mmj.dk">mlmmj</uri> and provides <c>List-Id:</c> mail headers
and <c>[listname]</c> subject prefixes to comply with modern mailing list
manager standards and conventions.
</p>

<p>
One interacts with <c>mlmmj</c> via email. To subscribe to a list, send an
empty email to:
</p>

<p>
<c>listname+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org</c>
</p>

<note>
Replace 'listname' with the actual name of the list that you want to subscribe
to, e.g.: <c>gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org</c> to subscribe to the
<c>gentoo-user</c> mailing list.
</note>

<p>
Once subscribed to the list, you can post to it by sending an email to:
</p>

<p>
<c>listname@lists.gentoo.org</c>
</p>

<p>
To unsubscribe from a list, send an empty email to:
</p>

<p>
<c>listname+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org</c>
</p>

<p>
All of our lists also have a corresponding digest list. Digest lists will mail
a single email to you every couple of days, rather than individual emails for
each post. If you are subscribed to the digest variant and wish to be
unsubscribed, you must specifically unsubscribe from the digest variant. Using
the email address that you wish to (un)subscribe, send an empty email to the
following addresses to subscribe and unsubscribe from mailing lists
respectively:
</p>

<p>
<c>listname+subscribe-digest@lists.gentoo.org</c><br/>
<c>listname+unsubscribe-digest@lists.gentoo.org</c>
</p>

<p>
Some users may want to post to the list, but not actually receive mail from
it (such as those who read lists via an alternate method, such as gmane).
These users may subscribe to the "nomail" option of each list: 
</p>

<p>
<c>listname+subscribe-nomail@lists.gentoo.org</c><br/>
<c>listname+unsubscribe-nomail@lists.gentoo.org</c>
</p>

<p>
You can learn more about the capabilities of mlmmj by sending an empty mail to
the following address:
</p>

<p>
<c>listname+help@lists.gentoo.org</c><br/>
</p>

<impo>
You can also learn more about the Gentoo mailing list system, including
etiquette and acceptable behavior, by reading the short Gentoo <uri
link="#faq">mailing list FAQ</uri> that appears later in this document.
</impo>

</body>
</section>
<section>
<title>Primary Gentoo Mailing Lists</title>
<body>

<table>
<tr>
  <th>List name</th>
  <th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-user</c></ti>
  <ti>General Gentoo user support and discussion mailing list</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-announce</c></ti>
  <ti>General Gentoo announcements list (new releases, security fixes)</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-dev</c></ti>
  <ti>General Gentoo developer discussion mailing list</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-dev-announce</c></ti>
  <ti>Gentoo development-specific announcements list</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-project</c></ti>
  <ti>For the discussion of non-technical matters in Gentoo</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-security</c></ti>
  <ti>For the discussion of security issues and fixes</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-gmn</c></ti>
  <ti>Gentoo Monthly Newsletter</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-doc</c></ti>
  <ti>For documentation contributions, suggestions, improvements and translations</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-doc-cvs</c></ti>
  <ti>Subscribe to this list if you want to be notified on changes regarding our documentation</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-commits</c></ti>
  <ti>Subscribe to this list if you want to be notified on changes in the CVS and SVN trees. This is a high-traffic read-only list!</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-ppc-user</c></ti>
  <ti>For Gentoo Linux/PowerPC user support and discussion</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-ppc-dev</c></ti>
  <ti>For Gentoo Linux/PowerPC developer discussion</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-alpha</c></ti>
  <ti>For Gentoo Linux/Alpha user support and discussion</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-amd64</c></ti>
  <ti>For Gentoo Linux/AMD64 user support and discussion</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-hppa</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussions about running Gentoo on the HPPA architecture</ti>
</tr>   
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-mips</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussions about running Gentoo on the MIPS architecture</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-sparc</c></ti>
  <ti>For Gentoo Linux/Sparc user support and discussion</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-bsd</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion about Gentoo/BSD</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-alt</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion about the <uri link="/proj/en/gentoo-alt/">Gentoo on Alternate Platforms Project</uri></ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-kernel</c></ti>
  <ti>Release announcements for gentoo-sources, vesafb-tng, fbsplash and discussion</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-laptop</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion on powersaving, pcmcia and other laptop-related stuff</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-desktop</c></ti>
  <ti>Mailing list devoted to Gentoo on the desktop</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-desktop-research</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussions about improving the Gentoo desktop experience</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-hardened</c></ti>
  <ti>For a security hardened version of Gentoo</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-portage-dev</c></ti>
  <ti>Portage Internals and Portage Interface Development Discussion</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-catalyst</c></ti>
  <ti>Mailinglist dedicated to catalyst</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-server</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussions about Gentoo in production environments</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-admin</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion about Gentoo Linux administration issues</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-cluster</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussions about Gentoo in clustered environments</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-devhelp</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion and help with ebuild developement issues for users</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-web-user</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion of web configuration and administration related to Gentoo's web tools</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-embedded</c></ti>
  <ti>For Gentoo Linux/embedded user and developer discussion</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-releng</c></ti>
  <ti>Mailinglist for the Gentoo release management team</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-pr</c></ti>
  <ti>Mailinglist for all Gentoo public-relation discussion</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-qa</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussions about QA and its improvement within Gentoo</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-devrel</c></ti>
  <ti>Gentoo Developer Relations mailing list</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-userrel</c></ti>
  <ti>Gentoo User Relations mailing list</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-council</c></ti>
  <ti>Gentoo Council mailing list</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-mirrors</c></ti>
  <ti>Announcements and discussion among Gentoo mirror admins and developers regarding releases and other issues</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-perl</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion of perl on Gentoo</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-java</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion about Java on Gentoo</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-science</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion on science-related applications and integration in Gentoo</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-gnustep</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion about GNUstep on Gentoo</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-accessibility</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion about the <uri link="/proj/en/desktop/accessibility/">Gentoo Accessibility Project</uri></ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-uk</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion within United Kingdom developers and UK based events organisation</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-au</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion within Australian developers and local events organisation</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-soc</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion on Gentoo activities related to Google's Summer of Code</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-lisp</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion about Lisp on Gentoo</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-vdr</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion about VDR on Gentoo</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-nfp</c></ti>
  <ti>The Gentoo NFP/Trustees Mailing list</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-scm</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion about migration of primary Gentoo repositories to alternate SCMs.</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-pms</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion about the Gentoo Package Manager Specification.</ti>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</section>
<section>
<title>Non-English Mailing Lists</title>
<body>

<table>
<tr>
  <th>List name</th>
  <th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-user-de</c></ti>
  <ti>deutschsprachige Gentoo User Diskussionsliste</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-user-br</c></ti>
  <ti>Brazilian Gentoo User Mailing List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-user-el</c></ti>
  <ti>Greek Gentoo User Mailing List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-user-es</c></ti>
  <ti>Lista para la ayuda y discusion de usuarios hispano-hablantes de Gentoo</ti>
</tr>
<tr>   
  <ti><c>gentoo-user-fr</c></ti>
  <ti>French Gentoo User Mailing List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-user-hu</c></ti>
  <ti>Hungarian Gentoo User Mailing List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-user-id</c></ti>
  <ti>Indonesian Gentoo User Mailing List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>   
  <ti><c>gentoo-user-kr</c></ti>
  <ti>Korean Gentoo User Mailing List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>   
  <ti><c>gentoo-user-nl</c></ti>
  <ti>Dutch Gentoo User Mailing List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>   
  <ti><c>gentoo-user-pl</c></ti>
  <ti>Polish Gentoo User Mailing List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-user-cs</c></ti>
  <ti>Czech and Slovak Gentoo User Mailing List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-user-ru</c></ti>
  <ti>Russian Gentoo User Mailing List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-user-tr</c></ti>
  <ti>Turkish Gentoo User Mailing List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>GENTOO-gwn-es</c></ti>
  <ti>Spanish Gentoo Weekly Newsletter</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-doc-de</c></ti>
  <ti>German Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-doc-el</c></ti>
  <ti>Greek Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-doc-es</c></ti>
  <ti>
    Lista de correo dedicada a la traduccion y creacion de documentacion en
    Espanol de Gentoo
  </ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-doc-fi</c></ti>
  <ti>Finnish Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-doc-fr</c></ti>
  <ti>French Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-docs-it</c></ti>
  <ti>Italian Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-doc-nl</c></ti>
  <ti>Dutch Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-doc-pl</c></ti>
  <ti>Polish Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-doc-ru</c></ti>
  <ti>Russian Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</section>
<section>
<title>Other Mailing Lists</title>
<body>

<table>
<tr>
  <th>List name</th>
  <th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>libconf</c></ti>
  <ti>For the discussion of libconf development</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>bug-wranglers</c></ti>
  <ti>
    Special-purpose list for the Gentoo Bug Wranglers. This mailing list is by
    invite only. If you are interested in joining, simply get active on
    bugzilla and help our existing members wrangle bugs. You'll get noticed and
    invited to be a bug-wrangler in due course.
  </ti>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</section>
<section>
<title>Inactive, Closed Gentoo Mailing Lists</title>
<body>

<p>
Archives still exist but these lists are closed for new posts.
</p>

<table>
<tr>
  <th>List name</th>
  <th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-doc-lt</c></ti>
  <ti>Lithuanian Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-doc-id</c></ti>
  <ti>Indonesian Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-forum-translations</c></ti>
  <ti>Gentoo Forums translations list</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-translators</c></ti>
  <ti>For discussion of document translation issues</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-arm</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussions about running Gentoo on the ARM architecture</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-gwn-fr</c></ti>
  <ti>French Gentoo Weekly Newsletter</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-gwn-pl</c></ti>
  <ti>Polish Gentoo Weekly Newsletter</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-dev-lang</c></ti>
  <ti>
    Discussion of programming language support and related issues in Gentoo
  </ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-ia64</c></ti>
  <ti>For Gentoo Linux/ia64 user support and discussion</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-scire</c></ti>
  <ti>
    Discussion about the <uri link="/proj/en/scire/">Systems Configuration,
    Installation and Replication Environment Project</uri>
  </ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-media</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion about Gentoo media packages</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-gwn-nl</c></ti>
  <ti>Dutch Gentoo Weekly Newsletter</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-doc-hu</c></ti>
  <ti>Hungarian Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-gwn-de</c></ti>
  <ti>German Gentoo Weekly Newsletter</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-xbox</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussion about Gentoo for Xbox</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-cygwin</c></ti>
  <ti>For Gentoo cygwin user support and discussion</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>www-redesign</c></ti>
  <ti>Dedicated to the development of the new Gentoo website</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-installer</c></ti>
  <ti>
    Discussion about the <uri link="/proj/en/releng/installer/">Gentoo Linux
    Installer Project</uri>
  </ti>
</tr>
<tr>
  <ti><c>gentoo-performance</c></ti>
  <ti>Discussions about improving the performance of Gentoo</ti>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</section>

<section>
<title>Archives</title>
<body>

<p>
Gentoo mailing list archives are collected on <br/>
<uri link="http://archives.gentoo.org">archives.gentoo.org</uri>.
</p>

<p>
The following sites also host archives of most of the mailing lists.<br/>
<uri link="http://news.gmane.org/search.php?match=gentoo">Gmane</uri><br/> 
<uri link="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/">MARC: Mailing list ARChives</uri><br/>
<uri link="http://www.mail-archive.com">Mail-Archive</uri>
</p>

</body>
</section>

<section id="faq">
<title>Mailing List Mini-FAQ</title>
<body>

<p>
<b>I subscribed to a list using my home email address, but I can't post to
the list from work. What do I do to fix this?</b>
</p>

<p>
To reduce spam, all of our lists are configured to only allow posts from
official subscriber email addresses. Fortunately, <c>mlmmj</c> supports "nomail"
subscriptions, allowing you to register alternate email addresses that can be
used only for posting to the list. Here's an example of how this works.  Let's
say you subscribed to the <c>gentoo-dev</c> list as <c>jim@home.com</c>, but
you'd also like to post to the list using your <c>james@work.com</c> email
address. To do this, send a message (as <c>james@work.com</c>) to
<c>gentoo-dev+subscribe-nomail@lists.gentoo.org</c> You should then be allowed
to post to <c>gentoo-dev</c> using both your home and work email addresses.
</p>

<p>
In line with the original spam reduction goal, if you post to the list from a
non-subscribed address, your mail will be delivered to <path>/dev/null</path>.
You will <b>not</b> receive any bounce message from our servers. This prevents
spammers from forging your address to get a bounce delivered to you.
</p>

<p>
<b>I want to switch from regular delivery to digest delivery. How do I do
this?</b>
</p>

<p>
Unsubscribe from the normal list and then subscribe to the digest list. For
list <c>listname</c>, this would be done by sending empty emails to the
following two addresses:
</p>

<p><c>listname+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org</c><br/>
<c>listname+subscribe-digest@lists.gentoo.org</c>
</p>

<p>
<b>How do I use procmail to filter Gentoo mailing list messages?</b>
</p>

<p>
To filter incoming mail arriving from list <c>listname</c>, use the following
<c>procmail</c> recipe:
</p>

<pre caption="Sample procmail recipe">
:0:
* ^List-Id:.*listname\.gentoo\.org
Mail/listname
</pre>

<p>
This is identical to how you'd filter incoming <e>Mailman</e> mailing list
manager emails.
</p>

<p>
<b>Miscellaneous list policies.</b>
</p>

<p>
HTML email is discouraged, but not forbidden (there are some MUA, specifically
web-based that make it very hard to disable HTML entirely).  Beware that some
users may have their recieving side configured to hide HTML entirely, so it
might look like you are ignored, especially if you sent HTML-only email. In
order of preference, you should endeavour to send: text/plain, multipart with
text/plain before text/html, text/html. MIME is acceptable and widely used.
</p>

<p>
Please do not send any vacation or out of office messages to the list. In the
interests of reducing list spam, if you set any auto-responding message that
goes to the lists, we will unsubscribe your account from ALL lists. Any
previously subscribed addresses that send mail server messages to the lists will
also be removed.
</p>

<p>
Do not cross-post when sending messages to a list! Sending the same message to
more than one list at a time leads to fragmentation of the thread when some
people reply on one list, and some on another list. There's no guarantee that
the recipients of your message are on both lists. Choose just one list when
sending a message.
</p>

<note>
For general email list etiquette, <uri
link="http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html">these guidelines</uri> are an
excellent primer.
</note>

</body>
</section>

</chapter>
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