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2<!DOCTYPE mainpage SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
2 3
3<mainpage id="lists"> 4<mainpage id="lists">
4 <title>Gentoo Linux Mailing Lists</title> 5<title>Gentoo Mailing Lists</title>
6
5 <author title="Author"> 7<author title="Author">
6 <mail link="drobbins@gentoo.org">Daniel Robbins</mail> 8 <mail link="drobbins@gentoo.org">Daniel Robbins</mail>
9 <mail link="cybersystem@gentoo.org">Sascha Schwabbauer</mail>
7 </author> 10</author>
11
8 <version>1.0</version> 12<version>1.5</version>
9 <date>05 Nov 2002</date> 13<date>October 17, 2004</date>
14
10 <chapter> 15<chapter>
11 <title>Gentoo Linux Mailing List Overview</title> 16<title>Mailing List Overview</title>
12 <section> 17<section>
13 <body> 18<body>
14 19
20<p>
15 <p>The Gentoo Linux free software project has a number of public mailing lists, covering a variety of Gentoo Linux-related 21The Gentoo free software project has a number of public mailing lists, covering
16 subjects. Our mailing lists are powered by a customized version of <uri link="http://ezmlm.org">ezmlm/idx</uri> that provides 22a variety of Gentoo-related subjects. Our mailing lists are powered by a
17 <c>List-Id:</c> mail headers and <c>[listname]</c> subject prefixes to comply with modern mailing list manager standards 23customized version of <uri link="http://ezmlm.org">ezmlm/idx</uri> that
18 and conventions.</p> 24provides <c>List-Id:</c> mail headers and <c>[listname]</c> subject prefixes to
25comply with modern mailing list manager standards and conventions.
26</p>
19 27
28<p>
20 <p>One interacts with <c>ezmlm/idx</c> via email. To subscribe to a list, send an empty email to:</p> 29One interacts with <c>ezmlm/idx</c> via email. To subscribe to a list, send an
30empty email to:
31</p>
32
21 <p><c>listname-subscribe@gentoo.org</c></p> 33<p><c>listname-subscribe@gentoo.org</c></p>
34
35<note>
36Replace 'listname' with the actual name of the list that you want to subscribe to.
37</note>
38
22 <p>Once subscribed to the list, you can post to it by sending an email to:</p> 39<p>Once subscribed to the list, you can post to it by sending an email to:</p>
23 <p><c>listname@gentoo.org</c></p> 40<p><c>listname@gentoo.org</c></p>
24 <p>To unsubscribe from a list, send an empty email to:</p> 41<p>To unsubscribe from a list, send an empty email to:</p>
25 <p><c>listname-unsubscribe@gentoo.org</c></p> 42<p><c>listname-unsubscribe@gentoo.org</c></p>
43
44<p>
26 <p>All of our lists also have a corresponding digest list. Digest lists will mail a single email to you every couple of days, 45All of our lists also have a corresponding digest list. Digest lists will mail
27 rather than individual emails for each post. Send an empty email to the following addresses to subscribe and unsubscribe from 46a single email to you every couple of days, rather than individual emails for
28 mailing lists respectively:</p> 47each post. Send an empty email to the following addresses to subscribe and
48unsubscribe from mailing lists respectively:
49</p>
50
51<p>
29 <p><c>listname-digest-subscribe@gentoo.org</c><br/> 52<c>listname-digest-subscribe@gentoo.org</c><br/>
30 <c>listname-digest-unsubscribe@gentoo.org</c></p> 53<c>listname-digest-unsubscribe@gentoo.org</c>
31 <p>You can learn more about the capabilities of ezmlm/idx by reading the <uri link="http://ezmlm.org/ezman-0.32/ezman1.html">Ezmlm/idx User's Manual</uri>. You can also learn more about the Gentoo Linux mailing list system by reading the short Gentoo Linux mailing 54</p>
55
56<p>
57You can learn more about the capabilities of ezmlm/idx by reading the <uri
58link="http://ezmlm.org/ezman-0.32/ezman1.html">Ezmlm/idx User's Manual</uri>.
59You can also learn more about the Gentoo mailing list system by reading the
60short Gentoo mailing
32 list FAQ that appears later in this document.</p> 61list FAQ that appears later in this document.
62</p>
63
33 </body> 64</body>
34 </section> 65</section>
35 </chapter> 66</chapter>
67
36 <chapter> 68<chapter>
37 <title>Gentoo Linux Mailing Lists</title> 69<title>Mailing Lists</title>
38 <section> 70<section>
39 <title>Primary Gentoo Linux Mailing Lists</title> 71<title>Primary Gentoo Mailing Lists</title>
40 <body> 72<body>
73
41 <table> 74<table>
42 <tr> 75<tr>
43 <th>List name</th> 76 <th>List name</th>
44 <th>Description</th> 77 <th>Description</th>
45 </tr> 78</tr>
46 <tr> 79<tr>
47 <ti><c>gentoo-user</c></ti> 80 <ti><c>gentoo-user</c></ti>
48 <ti>General Gentoo Linux user support and discussion mailing list</ti> 81 <ti>General Gentoo user support and discussion mailing list</ti>
49 </tr> 82</tr>
50 <tr> 83<tr>
51 <ti><c>gentoo-announce</c></ti> 84 <ti><c>gentoo-announce</c></ti>
52 <ti>General Gentoo Linux announcements list (new releases, security fixes)</ti> 85 <ti>General Gentoo announcements list (new releases, security fixes)</ti>
53 </tr> 86</tr>
54 <tr> 87<tr>
55 <ti><c>gentoo-dev</c></ti> 88 <ti><c>gentoo-dev</c></ti>
56 <ti>General Gentoo developer discussion mailing list</ti> 89 <ti>General Gentoo developer discussion mailing list</ti>
57 </tr> 90</tr>
58 <tr> 91<tr>
59 <ti><c>gentoo-security</c></ti> 92 <ti><c>gentoo-security</c></ti>
60 <ti>For the discussion of security issues and fixes</ti> 93 <ti>For the discussion of security issues and fixes</ti>
61 </tr> 94</tr>
62 <tr> 95<tr>
63 <ti><c>gentoo-desktop</c></ti> 96 <ti><c>gentoo-desktop</c></ti>
64 <ti>Mailing list devoted to Gentoo Linux on the desktop</ti> 97 <ti>Mailing list devoted to Gentoo on the desktop</ti>
65 </tr> 98</tr>
66 <tr> 99<tr>
100 <ti><c>gentoo-desktop-research</c></ti>
101 <ti>Discussions about improving the Gentoo desktop experience</ti>
102</tr>
103<tr>
67 <ti><c>gentoo-doc</c></ti> 104 <ti><c>gentoo-doc</c></ti>
68 <ti>For documentation contributions, suggestions, improvements and translations</ti> 105 <ti>For documentation contributions, suggestions, improvements and translations</ti>
69 </tr> 106</tr>
70 <tr> 107<tr>
71 <ti><c>gentoo-ppc-user</c></ti> 108 <ti><c>gentoo-ppc-user</c></ti>
72 <ti>For Gentoo Linux/PowerPC user support and discussion</ti> 109 <ti>For Gentoo Linux/PowerPC user support and discussion</ti>
73 </tr> 110</tr>
74 <tr> 111<tr>
75 <ti><c>gentoo-ppc-dev</c></ti> 112 <ti><c>gentoo-ppc-dev</c></ti>
76 <ti>For Gentoo Linux/PowerPC developer discussion</ti> 113 <ti>For Gentoo Linux/PowerPC developer discussion</ti>
77 </tr> 114</tr>
78 <tr> 115<tr>
79 <ti><c>gentoo-sparc</c></ti> 116 <ti><c>gentoo-sparc</c></ti>
80 <ti>For Gentoo Linux/Sparc user support and discussion</ti> 117 <ti>For Gentoo Linux/Sparc user support and discussion</ti>
81 </tr> 118</tr>
82 <tr> 119<tr>
83 <ti><c>gentoo-cvs</c></ti> 120 <ti><c>gentoo-doc-cvs</c></ti>
84 <ti>Subscribe to this list if you would like to receive a daily CVS Portage ChangeLog</ti> 121 <ti>Subscribe to this list if you want to be notified on changes regarding our documentation</ti>
85 </tr> 122</tr>
86 <tr> 123<tr>
87 <ti><c>gentoo-alpha</c></ti> 124 <ti><c>gentoo-alpha</c></ti>
88 <ti>For Gentoo Linux/Alpha user support and discussion</ti> 125 <ti>For Gentoo Linux/Alpha user support and discussion</ti>
89 </tr> 126</tr>
90 <tr> 127<tr>
91 <ti><c>gentoo-gwn</c></ti> 128 <ti><c>gentoo-amd64</c></ti>
92 <ti>Gentoo Weekly Newsletter</ti> 129 <ti>For Gentoo Linux/AMD64 user support and discussion</ti>
93 </tr> 130</tr>
94 <tr> 131<tr>
95 <ti><c>gentoo-translators</c></ti> 132 <ti><c>gentoo-gwn</c></ti>
133 <ti>Gentoo Weekly Newsletter</ti>
134</tr>
135<tr>
136 <ti><c>gentoo-translators</c></ti>
96 <ti>For discussion of document translation issues</ti> 137 <ti>For discussion of document translation issues</ti>
97 </tr> 138</tr>
98 <tr> 139<tr>
99 <ti><c>gentoo-hardened</c></ti> 140 <ti><c>gentoo-hardened</c></ti>
100 <ti>For a security hardened version of Gentoo</ti> 141 <ti>For a security hardened version of Gentoo</ti>
101 </tr> 142</tr>
102 <tr> 143<tr>
103 <ti><c>gentoo-performance</c></ti> 144 <ti><c>gentoo-performance</c></ti>
104 <ti>Discussions about improving the performance of Gentoo</ti> 145 <ti>Discussions about improving the performance of Gentoo</ti>
105 </tr> 146</tr>
106 <tr> 147<tr>
107 <ti><c>gentoo-mips</c></ti> 148 <ti><c>gentoo-portage-dev</c></ti>
149 <ti>Portage Internals and Portage Interface Development Discussion</ti>
150</tr>
151<tr>
152 <ti><c>gentoo-mips</c></ti>
108 <ti>Discussions about running Gentoo on the MIPS architecture</ti> 153 <ti>Discussions about running Gentoo on the MIPS architecture</ti>
109 </tr> 154</tr>
110 <tr> 155<tr>
111 <ti><c>gentoo-hppa</c></ti> 156 <ti><c>gentoo-hppa</c></ti>
112 <ti>Discussions about running Gentoo on the HPPA architecture</ti> 157 <ti>Discussions about running Gentoo on the HPPA architecture</ti>
113 </tr> 158</tr>
114 <tr> 159<tr>
115 <ti><c>gentoo-osx</c></ti>
116 <ti>For Gentoo Linux/OSX user and developer discussion</ti>
117 </tr>
118 <tr>
119 <ti><c>gentoo-sysadmin</c></ti> 160 <ti><c>gentoo-osx</c></ti>
161 <ti>For Gentoo OSX user and developer discussion</ti>
162</tr>
163<tr>
164 <ti><c>gentoo-server</c></ti>
120 <ti>Discussions about Gentoo in production environments</ti> 165 <ti>Discussions about Gentoo in production environments</ti>
121 </tr> 166</tr>
122 <tr> 167<tr>
123 <ti><c>gentoo-cygwin</c></ti> 168 <ti><c>gentoo-cygwin</c></ti>
124 <ti>For Gentoo Linux/cygwin user support and discussion</ti> 169 <ti>For Gentoo cygwin user support and discussion</ti>
125 </tr> 170</tr>
126 171<tr>
172 <ti><c>gentoo-ia64</c></ti>
173 <ti>For Gentoo Linux/ia64 user support and discussion</ti>
174</tr>
175<tr>
176 <ti><c>gentoo-embedded</c></ti>
177 <ti>For Gentoo Linux/embedded user and developer discussion</ti>
178</tr>
179<tr>
180 <ti><c>gentoo-cluster</c></ti>
181 <ti>Discussions about Gentoo in clustered environments</ti>
182</tr>
183<tr>
184 <ti><c>gentoo-releng</c></ti>
185 <ti>Mailinglist for the Gentoo release management team</ti>
186</tr>
187<tr>
188 <ti><c>gentoo-submissions</c></ti>
189 <ti>
190 Mailinglist for submitting copyright and license agreements to Gentoo for
191 your work, as well as for submitting your code
192 </ti>
193</tr>
194<tr>
195 <ti><c>gentoo-pr</c></ti>
196 <ti>Mailinglist for all Gentoo public-relation discussion</ti>
197</tr>
198<tr>
199 <ti><c>gentoo-qa</c></ti>
200 <ti>Discussions about QA and its improvement within Gentoo</ti>
201</tr>
202<tr>
203 <ti><c>gentoo-dev-lang</c></ti>
204 <ti>Discussion of programming language support and related issues in Gentoo</ti>
205</tr>
206<tr>
207 <ti><c>gentoo-web-user</c></ti>
208 <ti>Discussion of web configuration and administration related to Gentoo's web tools.</ti>
209</tr>
210<tr>
211 <ti><c>gentoo-science</c></ti>
212 <ti>Discussion on science-related applications and integration in Gentoo.</ti>
213</tr>
214<tr>
215 <ti><c>gentoo-laptop</c></ti>
216 <ti>Discussion on powersaving, pcmcia and other laptop-related stuff.</ti>
217</tr>
127 </table> 218</table>
128</body> 219
129 </section>
130 <section>
131 <title>Non-English Gentoo Linux Mailing Lists</title>
132 <body>
133 <table>
134 <tr>
135 <th>List name</th>
136 <th>Description</th>
137 </tr>
138 <tr>
139 <ti><c>gentoo-user-de</c></ti>
140 <ti>deutschsprachige Gentoo User Diskussionsliste</ti>
141 </tr>
142 <tr>
143 <ti><c>gentoo-user-es</c></ti>
144 <ti>Lista para la ayuda y discusión de usuarios hispano-hablantes de Gentoo</ti>
145 </tr>
146 <tr>
147 <ti><c>gentoo-user-kr</c></ti>
148 <ti>Korean Gentoo User Mailinglist</ti>
149 </tr>
150 <tr>
151 <ti><c>gentoo-user-fr</c></ti>
152 <ti>French Gentoo User Mailinglist</ti>
153 </tr>
154 <tr>
155 <ti><c>gentoo-user-pl</c></ti>
156 <ti>Polish Gentoo User Mailinglist</ti>
157 </tr>
158 <tr>
159 <ti><c>gentoo-doc-es</c></ti>
160 <ti>Lista de correo dedicada a la traducción y creación de documentación en Español de Gentoo</ti>
161 </tr>
162 </table>
163 </body> 220</body>
164 </section> 221</section>
165 <section> 222<section>
166 <title>Other Gentoo Linux Mailing Lists</title> 223<title>Non-English Mailing Lists</title>
167 <body> 224<body>
225
168 <table> 226<table>
169 <tr> 227<tr>
170 <th>List name</th> 228 <th>List name</th>
171 <th>Description</th> 229 <th>Description</th>
172 </tr> 230</tr>
173 <tr> 231<tr>
174 <ti><c>libconf</c></ti> 232 <ti><c>gentoo-user-de</c></ti>
175 <ti>For the discussion of libconf development</ti> 233 <ti>deutschsprachige Gentoo User Diskussionsliste</ti>
176 </tr> 234</tr>
177 <tr> 235<tr>
178 <ti><c>bug-wranglers</c></ti> 236 <ti><c>gentoo-user-es</c></ti>
179 <ti>Special-purpose list for the Gentoo Linux Bug Wranglers</ti> 237 <ti>Lista para la ayuda y discusion de usuarios hispano-hablantes de Gentoo</ti>
180 </tr> 238</tr>
239<tr>
240 <ti><c>gentoo-user-fr</c></ti>
241 <ti>French Gentoo User Mailing List</ti>
242</tr>
243<tr>
244 <ti><c>gentoo-user-hu</c></ti>
245 <ti>Hungarian Gentoo User Mailing List</ti>
246</tr>
247<tr>
248 <ti><c>gentoo-user-id</c></ti>
249 <ti>Indonesian Gentoo User Mailing List</ti>
250</tr>
251<tr>
252 <ti><c>gentoo-user-kr</c></ti>
253 <ti>Korean Gentoo User Mailing List</ti>
254</tr>
255<tr>
256 <ti><c>gentoo-user-pl</c></ti>
257 <ti>Polish Gentoo User Mailing List</ti>
258</tr>
259<tr>
260 <ti><c>gentoo-doc-de</c></ti>
261 <ti>German Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
262</tr>
263<tr>
264 <ti><c>gentoo-doc-es</c></ti>
265 <ti>
266 Lista de correo dedicada a la traduccion y creacion de documentacion en
267 Espanol de Gentoo
268 </ti>
269</tr>
270<tr>
271 <ti><c>gentoo-doc-fi</c></ti>
272 <ti>Finnish Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
273</tr>
274<tr>
275 <ti><c>gentoo-doc-fr</c></ti>
276 <ti>French Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
277</tr>
278<tr>
279 <ti><c>gentoo-doc-id</c></ti>
280 <ti>Indonesian Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
281</tr>
282<tr>
283 <ti><c>gentoo-doc-it</c></ti>
284 <ti>Italian Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
285</tr>
286<tr>
287 <ti><c>gentoo-doc-nl</c></ti>
288 <ti>Dutch Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
289</tr>
290<tr>
291 <ti><c>gentoo-doc-pl</c></ti>
292 <ti>Polish Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
293</tr>
294<tr>
295 <ti><c>gentoo-doc-ru</c></ti>
296 <ti>Russian Gentoo Documentation Translation List</ti>
297</tr>
181 </table> 298</table>
299
182 </body> 300</body>
183 </section> 301</section>
302<section>
303<title>Other Mailing Lists</title>
304<body>
305
306<table>
307<tr>
308 <th>List name</th>
309 <th>Description</th>
310</tr>
311<tr>
312 <ti><c>libconf</c></ti>
313 <ti>For the discussion of libconf development</ti>
314</tr>
315<tr>
316 <ti><c>bug-wranglers</c></ti>
317 <ti>Special-purpose list for the Gentoo Bug Wranglers</ti>
318</tr>
319</table>
320
321</body>
322</section>
184 </chapter> 323</chapter>
324
185 <chapter> 325<chapter>
186 <title>Gentoo Linux Mailing List Mini-FAQ</title> 326<title>Archives</title>
187 <section> 327<section>
188 <title>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?</title> 328<body>
189 329
190 <body><p>To reduce spam, all of our lists are configured to only allow posts from official subscriber email addresses. Fortunately, 330<p>
191 <c>ezmlm/idx</c> supports a concept known as "aliases," allowing you to register alternate email addresses that can also be used to 331We used to host our own mail archives, but that got pretty boring fast. The
192 post 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>, 332following sites host pretty decent archives of most of the mailing lists, so
193 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>jim@home.com</c>) 333please utilize them rather than asking for 'official' Gentoo mailing list
194 to <c>gentoo-dev-allow-subscribe-james=work.com@gentoo.org</c> (note the <c>@</c> becoming an <c>=</c>,) and then reply to the confirmation email you receive. You should then 334archives. These are the 'official' ones :).<br/> <uri
195 be allowed to post to <c>gentoo-dev</c> using both your home and work email addresses. 335link="http://news.gmane.org/search.php?match=gentoo">Gmane</uri><br/> <uri
196 </p></body> 336link="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/">MARC: Mailing list ARChives</uri>
337</p>
338
339</body>
197 </section> 340</section>
198 341</chapter>
342
343<chapter>
344<title>Mailing List Mini-FAQ</title>
199 <section> 345<section>
346<title>I subscribed to a list using my home email address, but I can't post to
347the list from work. What do I do to fix this?</title>
348<body>
349
350<p>
351To reduce spam, all of our lists are configured to only allow posts from
352official subscriber email addresses. Fortunately, <c>ezmlm/idx</c> supports a
353concept known as "aliases," allowing you to register alternate email addresses
354that can also be used to post to the list. Here's an example of how this works.
355Let's say you subscribed to the <c>gentoo-dev</c> list as <c>jim@home.com</c>,
356but you'd also like to post to the list using your <c>james@work.com</c> email
357address. To do this, send a message (as <c>jim@home.com</c>) to
358<c>gentoo-dev-allow-subscribe-james=work.com@gentoo.org</c> (note the <c>@</c>
359becoming an <c>=</c>,) and then reply to the confirmation email you receive.
360You should then be allowed to post to <c>gentoo-dev</c> using both your home
361and work email addresses.
362</p>
363
364</body>
365</section>
366
367<section>
200 <title>Where do I set/store my mailing list password?</title> 368<title>Where do I set/store my mailing list password?</title>
369<body>
370
371<p>
201 <body><p><c>ezmlm/idx</c> does not use passwords; instead, it uses auto-generated cryptographic cookies for security. 372<c>ezmlm/idx</c> does not use passwords; instead, it uses auto-generated
202 </p></body> 373cryptographic cookies for security.
374</p>
375
376</body>
203 </section> 377</section>
204 378
205 <section> 379<section>
206 <title>I want to switch from regular delivery to digest delivery. How do I do this?</title> 380<title>I want to switch from regular delivery to digest delivery. How do I do
207 <body><p>Unsubscribe from the normal list and then subscribe to the digest list. For list <c>listname</c>, this would be done by 381this?</title>
208 sending empty emails to the following two addresses:</p> 382<body>
383
384<p>
385Unsubscribe from the normal list and then subscribe to the digest list. For
386list <c>listname</c>, this would be done by sending empty emails to the
387following two addresses:
388</p>
389
209 <p><c>listname-unsubscribe@gentoo.org</c><br/> 390<p><c>listname-unsubscribe@gentoo.org</c><br/>
210 <c>listname-digest-subscribe@gentoo.org</c> 391<c>listname-digest-subscribe@gentoo.org</c>
211 </p></body> 392</p>
393
394</body>
212 </section> 395</section>
213 396
214
215 <section> 397<section>
216 <title>How do I use procmail to filter Gentoo Linux mailing list messages?</title> 398<title>How do I use procmail to filter Gentoo mailing list messages?</title>
399<body>
400
401<p>
217 <body><p>To filter incoming mail arriving from list <c>listname</c>, use the following <c>procmail</c> recipe:</p> 402To filter incoming mail arriving from list <c>listname</c>, use the following
218 <pre> 403<c>procmail</c> recipe:
404</p>
405
406<pre caption="Sample procmail recipe">
219:0 407:0:
220* ^List-Id:.*listname\.gentoo\.org 408* ^List-Id:.*listname\.gentoo\.org
221Mail/listname 409Mail/listname
222 </pre> 410</pre>
411
412<p>
223 <p>This identical to how you'd filter incoming <e>Mailman</e> mailing list manager emails.</p> 413This is identical to how you'd filter incoming <e>Mailman</e> mailing list
414manager emails.
415</p>
416
224 </body> 417</body>
225 </section> 418</section>
226 419
227</chapter> 420</chapter>
228</mainpage> 421</mainpage>
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