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# Mailinglists and archives

The linuxfromscratch.org server is hosting the following public accessible mailinglists:

- lfs-discuss

- lfs-apps

- lfs-announce

- lfs-security

- alfs-discuss

- alfs-docs

- alfs-ipc

- alfs-profile

- alfs-backend

## lfs-discuss

The lfs-discuss mailinglist discusses matters strictly related to the LFS-BOOK. If you have problems with the book, want to report a bug or two or have suggestions to improve the book, use this mailinglist.

Any other mail is to be posted on the lfs-apps list.

## lfs-apps

The lfs-apps list deals with everything that does not fit on the lfs-discuss list.

## lfs-announce

The lfs-announce list is a moderated list. You can subscribe to it, but you can't post any messages to this list. This list is used to announce new stable releases. If you want to be informed about development releases as well then you'll have to join the lfs-discuss list. If you're already on the lfs-discuss list there's little use subscribing to this list as well because everything that is posted to the lfs-announce list will be posted to the lfs-discuss list as well.

## lfs-security

The lfs-security mailinglist discusses security related matters. If you have security concerns or have heard about a package used by LFS that has known security problems, you can address that on this list.

## alfs-discuss

The alfs-discuss list discusses the development of ALFS which stands for Automated LinuxFromScratch. The goal of this project is to develop an installation tool that can install an LFS system automatically for you. It's main goal is to speed up compilation by taking away your need to manually enter the commands to configure, compile and install packages.

## alfs-docs

ALFS-docs is the ALFS documentation project which creates and maintains all of the ALFS documentation.

## alfs-ipc

The alfs-ipc list discusses the ALFS InterProcess Communication issues.

## alfs-profile

The alfs-profile list discusses the development of the ALFS XML profile and DTD.

## alfs-backend

The alfs-backend mailinglist discusses matters regarding the ALFS backend.

## Mail archives

All these lists are archived and can be viewed online at http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives or downloaded rom http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives or ftp://download.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives.

## How to subscribe?

You can subscribe to any of the above mentioned mailinglists by sending an email to listar@linuxfromscratch.org and write subscribe listname as the subject header of the message.

You can, if you want, subscribe to multiple lists at the same time using one email. If you want to do so, write some junk as the subject header, something that isn't a valid command like "hello". Then write the subscribe commands in the body of the message. The email will look like:

> To: listar@linuxfromscratch.org
> Subject: hello
> subscribe lfs-discuss
> subscribe lfs-apps
> subscribe alfs-discuss

After you have sent the email, the Listar program will send you an email back requesting a confirmation of your subscription request. After you have sent back this confirmation email, Majordomo will send you an email again with the message that you have been subscribed to the list(s) along with an introduction message for that particulair list.

## How to unsubscribe?

To unsubscribe from a list, send an email to listar@linuxfromscratch.org and write unsubscribe listname as the subject header of the message.

You can, if you want, unsubscribe from multiple lists at the same time using one email. If you want to do so, write some junk as the subject header, something that isn't a valid command like "hello". Then write the unsubscribe commands in the body of the message. The email will look like:

> To: listar@linuxfromscratch.org
> Subject: hello
> unsubscribe lfs-discuss
> unsubscribe lfs-apps
> unsubscribe alfs-discuss

After you have sent the email, the Listar program will send you an email back requesting a confirmation of your unsubscription request. After you have sent back this confirmation email, Listar will send you an email again with the message that you have been unsubscribed from the list(s).

## Other list modes

The modes you can set yourself to require you to send an email to listar@linuxfromscratch.org. The modes themselves are set by writing the appropriate commands in the subject headers of the message.

As the name implies the Set command tells you what to write to set a mode. The Unset command tells you what to write to unset a mode.

Replace listname in the example subject headers with the listname to which you want to apply the mode to. If you want to set more than one mode (to the same list or multiple lists) with one email you can do so by writing junk in the subject header like "hello" and then put the commands in the body of the message instead.

## Digests

Set command: set listname digest
Unset command: unset listname digest

All lists have the digest mode available and you can set yourself to digest mode, after you subscribe to a list. Being in digest mode will cause you to stop receiving individual messages as they are posted to the list and instead you will receive one email daily containing all the messages posted to the list that day.

There is a second digest mode called digest2. When you are set to this mode you will receive the daily digests but you will also continue to receive the individual messages to the lists are they are posted. To set yourself to this mode write digest2 instead of digest in the subject header.

## Vacation

Set command: set listname vacation
Unset command: unset listname vacation

If you are going to be away for a while or wish to stop receiving messages from the lists but you don't want to unsubscribe you can set yourself to vacation mode. This has the same effect as unsubscribing yourself, but you don't have to go through the unsubscribe process and then later through the subscribe process again.

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