Gentoo Mailing Lists Daniel Robbins Sascha Schwabbauer 1.4 September 22, 2004 Mailing List Overview

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 a customized version of ezmlm/idx that provides List-Id: mail headers and [listname] subject prefixes to comply with modern mailing list manager standards and conventions.

One interacts with ezmlm/idx via email. To subscribe to a list, send an empty email to:

listname-subscribe@gentoo.org

Replace 'listname' with the actual name of the list that you want to subscribe to.

Once subscribed to the list, you can post to it by sending an email to:

listname@gentoo.org

To unsubscribe from a list, send an empty email to:

listname-unsubscribe@gentoo.org

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. Send an empty email to the following addresses to subscribe and unsubscribe from mailing lists respectively:

listname-digest-subscribe@gentoo.org
listname-digest-unsubscribe@gentoo.org

You can learn more about the capabilities of ezmlm/idx by reading the Ezmlm/idx User's Manual. You can also learn more about the Gentoo mailing list system by reading the short Gentoo mailing list FAQ that appears later in this document.

Mailing Lists
Primary Gentoo Mailing Lists gentoo-userGeneral Gentoo user support and discussion mailing listgentoo-announceGeneral Gentoo announcements list (new releases, security fixes)gentoo-devGeneral Gentoo developer discussion mailing listgentoo-securityFor the discussion of security issues and fixesgentoo-desktopMailing list devoted to Gentoo on the desktopgentoo-desktop-researchDiscussions about improving the Gentoo desktop experiencegentoo-docFor documentation contributions, suggestions, improvements and translationsgentoo-ppc-userFor Gentoo Linux/PowerPC user support and discussiongentoo-ppc-devFor Gentoo Linux/PowerPC developer discussiongentoo-sparcFor Gentoo Linux/Sparc user support and discussiongentoo-doc-cvsSubscribe to this list if you want to be notified on changes regarding our documentationgentoo-alphaFor Gentoo Linux/Alpha user support and discussiongentoo-amd64For Gentoo Linux/AMD64 user support and discussiongentoo-gwnGentoo Weekly Newslettergentoo-translatorsFor discussion of document translation issuesgentoo-hardenedFor a security hardened version of Gentoogentoo-performanceDiscussions about improving the performance of Gentoogentoo-portage-devPortage Internals and Portage Interface Development Discussiongentoo-mipsDiscussions about running Gentoo on the MIPS architecturegentoo-hppaDiscussions about running Gentoo on the HPPA architecturegentoo-osxFor Gentoo OSX user and developer discussiongentoo-serverDiscussions about Gentoo in production environmentsgentoo-cygwinFor Gentoo cygwin user support and discussiongentoo-ia64For Gentoo Linux/ia64 user support and discussiongentoo-embeddedFor Gentoo Linux/embedded user and developer discussiongentoo-clusterDiscussions about Gentoo in clustered environmentsgentoo-relengMailinglist for the Gentoo release management teamgentoo-submissions Mailinglist for submitting copyright and license agreements to Gentoo for your work, as well as for submitting your code gentoo-prMailinglist for all Gentoo public-relation discussiongentoo-qaDiscussions about QA and its improvement within Gentoogentoo-dev-langDiscussion of programming language support and related issues in Gentoogentoo-web-userDiscussion of web configuration and administration related to Gentoo's web tools.gentoo-scienceDiscussion on science-related applications and integration in Gentoo.gentoo-laptopDiscussion on powersaving, pcmcia and other laptop-related stuff.
List name Description
Non-English Mailing Lists gentoo-user-dedeutschsprachige Gentoo User Diskussionslistegentoo-user-esLista para la ayuda y discusion de usuarios hispano-hablantes de Gentoogentoo-user-frFrench Gentoo User Mailing Listgentoo-user-huHungarian Gentoo User Mailing Listgentoo-user-idIndonesian Gentoo User Mailing Listgentoo-user-krKorean Gentoo User Mailing Listgentoo-user-plPolish Gentoo User Mailing Listgentoo-doc-deGerman Gentoo Documentation Translation Listgentoo-doc-es Lista de correo dedicada a la traduccion y creacion de documentacion en Espanol de Gentoo gentoo-doc-fiFinnish Gentoo Documentation Translation Listgentoo-doc-frFrench Gentoo Documentation Translation Listgentoo-doc-idIndonesian Gentoo Documentation Translation Listgentoo-doc-nlDutch Gentoo Documentation Translation Listgentoo-doc-plPolish Gentoo Documentation Translation Listgentoo-doc-ruRussian Gentoo Documentation Translation List
List name Description
Other Mailing Lists libconfFor the discussion of libconf developmentbug-wranglersSpecial-purpose list for the Gentoo Bug Wranglers
List name Description
Archives

We used to host our own mail archives, but that got pretty boring fast. The following sites host pretty decent archives of most of the mailing lists, so please utilize them rather than asking for 'official' Gentoo mailing list archives. These are the 'official' ones :).
Gmane
MARC: Mailing list ARChives

Mailing List Mini-FAQ
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, ezmlm/idx supports a concept known as "aliases," allowing you to register alternate email addresses that can also be used to post to the list. Here's an example of how this works. Let's say you subscribed to the gentoo-dev list as jim@home.com, but you'd also like to post to the list using your james@work.com email address. To do this, send a message (as jim@home.com) to gentoo-dev-allow-subscribe-james=work.com@gentoo.org (note the @ becoming an =,) and then reply to the confirmation email you receive. You should then be allowed to post to gentoo-dev using both your home and work email addresses.

Where do I set/store my mailing list password?

ezmlm/idx does not use passwords; instead, it uses auto-generated cryptographic cookies for security.

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 listname, this would be done by sending empty emails to the following two addresses:

listname-unsubscribe@gentoo.org
listname-digest-subscribe@gentoo.org

How do I use procmail to filter Gentoo mailing list messages?

To filter incoming mail arriving from list listname, use the following procmail recipe: 

:0:
* ^List-Id:.*listname\.gentoo\.org
Mail/listname

This is identical to how you'd filter incoming Mailman mailing list manager emails.