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
One interacts with
You will then recieve a subscription confirmation request (double opt-in) from the list manager, that you must reply to if you wish to subscribe.
Once subscribed to the list, you can post to it by sending an email to:
To unsubscribe from a list, send an empty email to:
You will then recieve a unsubscription confirmation request (double opt-in) from the list manager, that you must reply to if you wish to be unsubscribed.
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:
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:
You can learn more about the capabilities of mlmmj by sending an empty mail to the following address:
Very few of the Gentoo lists are moderated: only the -announce lists are
fully moderatored. Additionally, some of our high-traffic lists have moderators
in place for spam and unsubscribe requests (matching mail via regex). The
moderators can be reached by emailing:
To get on a "Restricted" lists, you must be subscribed by an administrator; the normal subscribe process is disabled.
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Archives still exist but these lists are closed for new posts.
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Gentoo mailing list archives are collected on
The following sites also host archives of most of the mailing lists.
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?
To reduce spam, all of our lists are configured to only allow posts from
official subscriber email addresses. Fortunately,
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
I want to switch from regular delivery to digest delivery. How do I do this?
Unsubscribe from the normal list and then subscribe to the digest list. For
list
How do I use procmail to filter Gentoo mailing list messages?
To filter incoming mail arriving from list
:0: * ^List-Id:.*listname\.gentoo\.org Mail/listname
This is identical to how you'd filter incoming
Miscellaneous list policies.
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.
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.
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.
My question isn't answered above, whom do I ask for help?
If you need additional help beyond the above, please
The mailing lists are public forums, except for lists explicitly otherwise. For lists explicitly marked private or restricted, all of the following except web archives are applicable.
All emails sent to the lists are distributed both to the list subscribers and
copied to the
There may be other places where lists are distributed — please make sure you never send any confidential or unlicensed material to the lists. This includes things like e-mail addresses. Of particular note is the fact that spammers, viruses, worms etc have been known to abuse e-mail addresses posted to our mailing lists.
Gentoo maintains the mailing lists in good faith and will take steps to curb all noticed abuse and maintain uninterrupted normal service. At the same time, Gentoo is not responsible for all mailing list posts or anything that may happen in relation to them.
These policies are based on the