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Mailing Lists

There are several different mailing lists related to LyX. You can check the archives to get a feeling for which might be relevant to you. Some of the lists are also available in digest form.

Note that the lists below are also archived at MARC. The GMANE mail/news gateway hosts bi-directional NNTP versions of the LyX mailing lists in the gmane.editors.lyx hierarchy.

Clicking the links below should allow you to subscribe or unsubscribe to the various lists. (Subscribe and unsubscribe messages do not need a subject and can be empty. All that's important is the email address that you send the message to.) A lengthier explanation of the mailing list software and what you can do with it can be found below.

Announcement list

This list is intended for announcements concerning LyX, in particular new stable versions. You should not send mail to this list. (Very low volume.)

Send an empty mail message to:

Here is the announcement list archive.

Users' list

This medium volume list is for have questions on how to get LyX working, how to use LyX and other question related to usage. (Medium volume.)

To contribute to the mailing list, send a (non-empty!) message to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org .

For other mailing list functions, send an empty mail message to:

The list is archived at a new archive at mail-archive or GMANE and an old archive.

Developers' list

This list is intended for the discussion of subjects relevant to the implementation, planning, hacking and improvement of LyX. This means that bug reports should be sent here, but please check the LyX bug tracker at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/ to see if the bug has already been reported. (High volume - tens of messages per day)

To contribute to the mailing list, mail to lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org .

For other mailing list functions, send an empty message to:

The list is archived at mail-archive.com and at MARC and at GMANE .

Documentation Team list

This list is specifically for discussing documentation, including fixes to docs, new documentation, or translations. (Low volume)

To contribute to the mailing list, mail to lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org .

For other mailing list functions, send an empty message to:

The list is archived at mail-archive.com and at GMANE.

CVS list

This list is automatically mailed whenever someone checks something into the repository. It's probably more information than most people want to know. (Often high volume.)

Send an empty mail message to:

Last posts can be found at GMANE.

Digests

If you feel like you're getting messages too often, you might prefer to receive digests instead. A digest is sent out with about 30 messages in it, as well as an index of the messages grouped by subject. This will take up the same amount of memory in your mailbox, of course, but will arrive with much lower frequency. You can't post directly to digest lists, and they aren't archived.

Developers' list digest

Send an empty mail message to:

Users' list digest

Send an empty mail message to:

How the mailing lists work

All of the LyX mailing lists use the same software. The most common thing you'll do is mail the list, which sends mail to everyone on the mailing list. But to subscribe, unsubscribe, or do other interesting things, you'll interact with the daemon (program) that runs the mailing list. You do this by writing email messages to various addresses, all of which end with @lists.lyx.org. The exact email address you write to tells the daemon what you want to do. The daemon will ignore anything you put in the subject or body of the message; in fact, the message can be completely empty.

One particularly useful command will send you a help message. The help message will tell you how to do more complicated things, like getting an index (table of contents) of messages, retrieving one or more old messages, or contacting the (human) owner of the mailing list because the program doesn't seem to be working. (Please do not contact the mailing list owner with questions about LyX. For that, just write to the mailing list.)

Subscribing with different addresses

By default, when you subscribe, the daemon will send your mail to the address that you sent your subscription message from. However, the mailing list daemon may sometimes think that your address isn't exactly what you think it is. You may avoid this confusion by telling the daemon your address explicitly. Do this by adding your address to the @lists.lyx.org address you're mailing to, replacing the '@' with '='. For example, if you want to receive mail from the users' list at bar@blah.com, then subscribe by mailing an empty message to

    lyx-users-subscribe-bar=blah.com@lists.lyx.org

Or unsubscribe that address by mailing to 

    lyx-users-unsubscribe-bar=blah.com@lists.lyx.org

Make sure that mail to the address you put in your (un)subscription request will actually get to you. The mailing list daemon will mail that address for a confirmation.

Help! I'm still confused!

If you send mail to the "help" address for a given list, you'll get a help message in return. But if (un)subscribing, or something else, is just not working, you can mail the human owner of the list. For example, the human owner of the users' list is at at lyx-users-owner@lists.lyx.org.

Help! I can't unsubscribe!

In every message you get from the LyX mailing lists, there will be a line in the message header that looks like this:

    List-Unsubscribe: 
    <mailto:lyx-devel-unsubscribe-bar=blah.com@lists.lyx.org>

This will remind you how to unsubscribe, so that you don't have to mail the mailing list asking how to do so.

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dante e.V. the German TeX User Group, sponsored the 7th International LyX Developers Meeting. Thanks to ANSOL for kindly hosting the meeting.

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