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<title>OpenBSD: Mailing Lists</title>
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<h2 id=OpenBSD>
<a href="index.html">
<i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
Mailing Lists
</h2>
<hr>
<p>
Mailing lists are an important means of communication among users and
developers of OpenBSD.
With the exception of <b>announce</b>, the lists are not moderated
(but see below).
We deliberately restrict the number of different mailing lists.
This helps reduce the amount of cross-posting and makes sure that
the information gets distributed to a wide audience.
<h2 id="Netiquette">Netiquette</h2>
<p>
Be considerate of other subscribers on the mailing lists.
<dl>
<dt><b>Plain text, 72 characters per line.</b>
<dd>Many subscribers and developers read their mail on text-based mailers
like <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mail">mail(1)</a>,
emacs or mutt, and they often find HTML-formatted messages (or lines that
stretch beyond 72 characters) unreadable.
Messages that do not include a plain text part will be summarily rejected.
A small number of attachment types are allowed on the mailing lists to
support sending patches,
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/shar.1">shar(1)</a> files,
images and small tar or zip files.
Other attachment types may cause messages to be sent to the moderator
for approval.
<p>
<dt><b>Do your homework before you post.</b>
<dd>If you have an installation question, make sure that you have read
the relevant documents, such as the <code>INSTALL.*</code> text files in the
installation directories, the <a href="faq/index.html">FAQ</a> and the
relevant man pages (start with
<a href= "https://man.openbsd.org/afterboot">afterboot(8)</a>).
Also check the mailing list archives.
We want to help, but we wouldn't want to deprive you of a valuable
learning experience, and no one wants to see the same question on the
lists for the fifth time in a month.
<p>
<dt><b>Include a useful Subject line.</b>
<dd>Messages with an empty Subject will get bounced to the list manager and
will take longer to show up.
Including a relevant Subject in the message will ensure that more people
actually read what you've written.
Also, avoid Subject lines with excessive capitalization.
"Help!" or "I can't get it to work!" are not useful subject lines.
Do not change the subject line while on the same topic.
YOU may know what it is regarding, the rest of us who get several hundred
messages a day will have no idea.
<p>
<dt><b>Trim your signature.</b>
<dd>Keep the signature lines at the bottom of your mail to a reasonable length.
PGP signatures and those automatic address cards are merely annoying and
are stripped out.
Legal disclaimers and advisories are also very annoying and inappropriate
for public mailing lists.
<p>
<dt><b>Stay on topic.</b>
<dd>Please keep the subject of the post relevant to users of OpenBSD.
Users who post off-topic messages may find that their messages
are sent to the moderator for approval before being posted (or dropped).
Posts containing bullying or abusive language may also result in a
user's subsequent messages being sent to a moderator for approval.
Repeat offenders will have their messages silently dropped.
<p>
<dt><b>Include important information.</b>
<dd>Don't waste everyone's time with a hopelessly incomplete question.
No one other than you has the information needed to resolve your
problem, it is better to provide more information than needed than not
enough detail.
All questions should include at least the <a href="faq/faq5.html#Flavors">
version</a> of OpenBSD.
Any hardware-related questions should mention the platform (i386, amd64,
etc.) and provide a full <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dmesg">dmesg(8)</a>.
Hardware model numbers, unfortunately, don't indicate much about the
actual content of a particular machine or accessory, and are useless to
anyone who doesn't have that exact machine sitting where they can easily
recognize it.
The dmesg output tells us exactly what is IN your machine, not what
stickers are on the outside.
<p>
<dt><b>Respect differences in opinion and philosophy.</b>
<dd>Intelligent people may look at the same set of facts and come to very
different conclusions.
Repeating the same points that didn't convince someone previously rarely
changes their mind, and irritates all the other readers.
</dl>
<h2 id="spam">Spam</h2>
<p>
The OpenBSD lists use <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/spamd">spamd(8)</a>
and <a href="https://spamassassin.apache.org">SpamAssassin</a> to keep down the
spam volume, but things do sneak through from time to time — deal with it.
In addition, the list server also has regex-based rules to reject emails
based on some common spam and virus telltales.
If you get spam through one of the OpenBSD mailing lists, you don't need to
send a copy to the list owner — chances are he's already seen it.
Also, please do <b>not</b> submit spam received through the
mailing lists to <a href="https://www.spamcop.net">spamcop</a>,
as this will result in the list server being added to their RBL.
Complaining about and commenting upon spam on the list proper is
counter-productive, as it generates more traffic than the spam itself.
<p>
Note that if you are sending mail from a dynamic IP address, you
will probably <b>not</b> be able to post to the mailing lists.
In this case, you should use a <em>smart host</em> mail configuration
that utilizes your ISP's mail server.
See the examples in
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.conf">smtpd.conf(5)</a> for how
to do this.
<h2 id="Lists">General Interest Lists</h2>
<p>
These lists are of interest to most users of OpenBSD.
<dl>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce">Archive</a>)
<dd>Announcements and security advisories.
<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc">Archive</a>)
<dd>User questions and answers, general questions.
This is the most active list.
Please read <a href="faq/index.html">the FAQ</a> and the installation
documents, and see <a href="report.html">how to report a problem</a>
before posting.
<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-advocacy">Archive</a>)
<dd>Promoting the use of OpenBSD.
<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports">Archive</a>)
<dd>Discussions about using and contributing to the ports tree.
<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]">Archive</a>)
<dd>General discussions, issues and ideas about native and portable OpenSMTPD.
Patches for the portable bits should be pull requests on
<a href="https://github.com/OpenSMTPD/OpenSMTPD">Github</a>.
To subscribe there,
follow instructions from <a href="https://opensmtpd.org/list.html">the OpenSMTPD website</a>.
<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbgpd-users">Archive</a>)
<dd>General discussions, issues and ideas about native and portable OpenBGPD.
Patches for the portable bits should be pull requests on
<a href="https://github.com/openbgpd-portable/openbgpd-portable">Github</a>.
</dl>
<h2>Developer Lists</h2>
<p>
These lists are for technical discussions of aspects of OpenBSD.
They are NOT for beginners or average users, they are not for problem
reporting (unless you are including a good fix) and they are not for
installation problems.
If you have any question about if a message should be posted to any of
these lists, it probably should not.
Use <b>misc</b> instead.
<dl>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs">Archive</a>)
<dd>Bug reports as sent in via
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sendbug">sendbug(1)</a> and follow-up discussion.
<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech">Archive</a>)
<dd>Discussion of technical topics for OpenBSD developers and advanced users.
This is <b>not</b> a "tech support" forum — do not use it as such.
OpenBSD developers will often make patches to implement new features
and other important changes available for public testing through this list.
<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=libressl">Archive</a>)
<dd>Technical discussion about native and portable LibreSSL.
Patches for the portable bits should be pull requests on
<a href="https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable">Github</a>.
</dl>
<h2>Reporting Security Issues</h2>
These private addresses are for reporting vulnerabilities to the OpenBSD team.
<dl>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
<dd>Report vulnerabilities related to OpenBSD.
<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
<dd>Report vulnerabilities related to OpenSSH.
<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
<dd>Report vulnerabilities related to LibreSSL.
<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
<dd>Report vulnerabilities related to OpenSMTPD.
</dl>
<h2>Platform-Specific Lists</h2>
<p>
These lists are focused on user issues and development on individual
<a href=plat.html>platforms</a>.
<dl>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-alpha">Archive</a>)
<dd>OpenBSD/alpha port.
<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-arm">Archive</a>)
<dd>OpenBSD/armv7 and OpenBSD/arm64 ports.
<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-hppa">Archive</a>)
<dd>OpenBSD/hppa port.
<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-m88k">Archive</a>)
<dd>OpenBSD/luna88k port.
<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ppc">Archive</a>)
<dd>OpenBSD/macppc and other PowerPC porting efforts.
<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-sparc">Archive</a>)
<dd>OpenBSD/sparc64 port.
</dl>
<h2>CVS Changes Mailing Lists</h2>
Every time a developer commits a change to the OpenBSD CVS tree, a message
is mailed out to all the subscribers of these lists, containing the commit
comments.
<dl>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs">Archive</a>)
<dd>Automated mail of CVS source tree changes in the <code>src</code>,
<code>xenocara</code> and <code>www</code> repositories.
<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs">Archive</a>)
<dd>Automated mail of CVS source tree changes in the <code>ports</code>
repository.
</dl>
<h2 id="Mirrors">Mirror-Related Lists</h2>
Announcements and discussion relating to <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>
of OpenBSD.
<dl>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
<dd>This is a moderated list used solely for important announcements
to operators of OpenBSD mirrors.
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<p>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
<dd>Discussion relating to OpenBSD mirrors.
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</dl>
<h2 id="Majordomo">Managing List Membership via Majordomo</h2>
<p>
If you want to be sent a complete list with all mailing lists available
at openbsd.org, send the command <code>lists</code> in the body of
a message to
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.
<p>
To subscribe to a given list, send mail to
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
with a message body of "subscribe <code>mailing-list-name</code>" (where
<code>mailing-list-name</code> is the name of your preferred list).
<p>
For further assistance, send a message body of "help" to
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
and you will receive a reply outlining all your options.
Your domain <b>must</b> resolve properly or the mail will not go through!
<h2 id="Web">Managing List Membership via the Web</h2>
<p>
Your membership to the OpenBSD mailing lists can also be managed via
a web interface at <a href="https://lists.openbsd.org">lists.openbsd.org</a>.
<h2 id="Tricks">Mailing List Tricks</h2>
<p>
There are a number of very useful options that can be selected, either
by the <a href="https://lists.openbsd.org">web interface</a> or through
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Majordomo</a>.
You can change your email address without having to unsubscribe and
resubscribe, temporarily disable your message delivery for a few days
while you go on vacation, and much more.
The user is invited to spend some time reading through the options, available
by sending <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Majordomo</a> a message
containing "help" as the body text, or through the "Help" tab of the
<a href="https://lists.openbsd.org">web interface</a>.
<p>
As an example, if you were going on vacation for two weeks and didn't
wish to come back to several thousand emails, you can disable message
delivery by the mail server for the time of your vacation and have
delivery automatically resume upon your scheduled return using the command:
<blockquote><kbd>
set ALL nomail-14d
</kbd></blockquote>
<p>
This will suspend your subscription to all mailing lists for 14 days
(<code>-14d</code>).
More details and options can be seen on the
<a href="http://lists.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr?&user=&passw=&list=GLOBAL&func=help&extra=overview">
Majordomo overview page</a>.
<h2>Digests</h2>
<p>
If you would prefer to see a "digest" (a consolidated listing of all the
messages for a time period), rather than getting messages individually
in "real-time" form, you can use the commands:
<blockquote><kbd>
set misc digest-daily<br>
set source-changes digest-weekly
</kbd></blockquote>
for daily digests of the <b>misc</b> list, and weekly digests of the
<b>source-changes</b> list.
Yes, multiple commands can be placed in one Majordomo email.
<h2 id="OtherLists">Other Mailing Lists</h2>
<dl>
<dt><b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-pf">Archive</a>)
<dd>Discussions about the <a href=faq/pf/index.html>OpenBSD packet filter</a>.
To subscribe, send an email with a message body of "subscribe" to
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.
More info <a href="https://www.benzedrine.ch/mailinglist.html">here</a>.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2 id="nonEnglish">Non-English Lists</h2>
<p>
Several non-English speaking mailing lists related to OpenBSD are available
separately.
Here is a list of the currently known mailing lists:
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<p>
French:
<b>[email protected]</b>
(<a href="https://openbsd.fr.eu.org/blabla/">Archive</a>)
<br>To subscribe, send a message to
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">
<p>
Spanish:
<b>[email protected]</b>
<br>To subscribe, visit the URL at:
<a href="https://groups.google.com/group/OpenBSD-Mexico">
https://groups.google.com/group/OpenBSD-Mexico</a>
<p>
Ukrainian:
<b>[email protected]</b>
<br>To subscribe, send an empty message to
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">