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1.7.1.1 The MySQL Mailing Lists

To subscribe to or unsubscribe from any of the mailing lists described in this section, visit http://lists.mysql.com/. Please do not send messages about subscribing or unsubscribing to any of the mailing lists, because such messages are distributed automatically to thousands of other users.

Your local site may have many subscribers to a MySQL mailing list. If so, the site may have a local mailing list, so that messages sent from lists.mysql.com to your site are propagated to the local list. In such cases, please contact your system administrator to be added to or dropped from the local MySQL list.

If you wish to have traffic for a mailing list go to a separate mailbox in your mail program, set up a filter based on the message headers. You can use either the List-ID: or Delivered-To: headers to identify list messages.

The MySQL mailing lists are as follows:

announce: This list is for announcements of new versions of MySQL and related programs. This is a low-volume list to which all MySQL users should subscribe.
mysql: This is the main list for general MySQL discussion. Please note that some topics are better discussed on the more-specialized lists. If you post to the wrong list, you may not get an answer.
mysql-digest: This is the mysql list in digest form. Subscribing to this list means you will get all list messages, sent as one large mail message once a day.
bugs: This list will be of interest to you if you want to stay informed about issues reported since the last release of MySQL or if you want to be actively involved in the process of bug hunting and fixing. See section How to Report Bugs or Problems.
bugs-digest: This is the bugs list in digest form.
internals: This list is for people who work on the MySQL code. This is also the forum for discussions on MySQL development and post patches.
internals-digest: This is the internals list in digest form.
mysqldoc: This list is for people who work on the MySQL documentation: people from MySQL AB, translators, and other community members.
mysqldoc-digest: This is the mysqldoc list in digest form.
benchmarks: This list is for anyone interested in performance issues. Discussions concentrate on database performance (not limited to MySQL), but also include broader categories such as performance of the kernel, filesystem, disk system, and so on.
benchmarks-digest: This is the benchmarks list in digest form.
packagers: This list is for discussions on packaging and distributing MySQL. This is the forum used by distribution maintainers to exchange ideas on packaging MySQL and on ensuring that MySQL looks and feels as similar as possible on all supported platforms and operating systems.
packagers-digest: This is the packagers list in digest form.
java: This list is for discussions about the MySQL server and Java. It is mostly used to discuss JDBC drivers, including MySQL Connector/J.
java-digest: This is the java list in digest form.
win32: This list is for all topics concerning the MySQL software on Microsoft operating systems, such as Windows 9x, Me, NT, 2000, and XP.
win32-digest: This is the win32 list in digest form.
myodbc: This list is for all topics concerning connecting to the MySQL server with ODBC.
myodbc-digest: This is the myodbc list in digest form.
mysqlcc: This list is for all topics concerning the MySQL Control Center graphical client.
mysqlcc-digest: This is the mysqlcc list in digest form.
plusplus: This list is for all topics concerning programming with the C++ API to MySQL.
plusplus-digest: This is the plusplus list in digest form.
msql-mysql-modules: This list is for all topics concerning the Perl support for MySQL with msql-mysql-modules, which is now named DBD::mysql.
msql-mysql-modules-digest: This is the msql-mysql-modules list in digest form.

If you're unable to get an answer to your questions from a MySQL mailing list, one option is to purchase support from MySQL AB. This will put you in direct contact with MySQL developers. See section Support Offered by MySQL AB.

The following table shows some MySQL mailing lists in languages other than English. These lists are not operated by MySQL AB.

mysql-france-subscribe@yahoogroups.com: A French mailing list.
list@tinc.net: A Korean mailing list. Email subscribe mysql your@email.address to this list.
mysql-de-request@lists.4t2.com: A German mailing list. Email subscribe mysql-de your@email.address to this list. You can find information about this mailing list at http://www.4t2.com/mysql/.
mysql-br-request@listas.linkway.com.br: A Portuguese mailing list. Email subscribe mysql-br your@email.address to this list.
mysql-alta@elistas.net: A Spanish mailing list. Email subscribe mysql your@email.address to this list.