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Bacula has a number of email lists which are described below with links to subscribe, unsubscribe, or modify your account. For general information subscribing to or unsubscribing from these lists, please see Bacula Mailing Lists at SourceForge.

For email archives see the bottom of this page.

Source Forge has rather strict email requirements in order to try to minimize the large quantity of spam that the lists receive every day. These are measures that they have implemented, and over which we have no control.

If you are having problems subscribing or sending email to a Bacula list, please, read the following: SourceForge.net: Email Problems: Spam, Bounces, Unreceived Messages, then if you are still having problems send a support request to Source Forge. Source Forge requires the person affected submit his/her own support request; the Bacula project is not permitted to do so on your behalf.

One item they do not mention in the above referenced document is grey listing. If you are using grey listing, you are likely to have problems with the Source Forge email lists. The solution is to whitelist their sending IPs. You might want to whitelist their whole zone (66.35.250.0/24) as I (Kern) have done, but if you are more conservative, I found only two of their IPs were sending email (66.35.250.225 and 66.35.250.206). If you grey list individual Source Forge IP addresses, please be sure to check your logs to verify the addresses they use for you.

bacula-announce

The bacula-announce list is a read only low volume list for those users who wish to be notified when there are important events (important bugs, new releases, …). We recommend that all users subscribe to this list. Do so by following the instructions at: Bacula Announce List Subscription/Unsubscription/Modification. Please do not send email directly to this list.

It is also possible to get email notification whenever a new package is released on SourceForge. This is accomplished by going to the Bacula SourceForge Project page and clicking on the little letter or mail icon under the heading Monitor in the row corresponding to the package you want to monitor.

bacula-users

The bacula-users list is the general forum to ask questions about Bacula or respond to questions from other users. The volume on this list is generally moderate, but can vary. All users are encouraged to subscribe and to participate. Due to the increasing volume of spam, you must be subscribed before you can send email to this list. To subscribe follow the instructions at: Bacula Users List Subscription/Unsubscription/Modification.

To send an email to the Bacula Users List, use the following address: bacula-users at lists.sourceforge.net. The previous address was modified to prevent easy use by spammers. To use it, you must replace the at with an @ symbol.

bacula-users-es

The bacula-users-es list is the general Spanish language forum to ask questions about Bacula or respond to questions from other users. The volume on this list is generally moderate, but can vary. All Spanish speaking users are encouraged to subscribe and to participate. Due to the increasing volume of spam, you must be subscribed before you can send email to this list. To subscribe follow the instructions at: Bacula Spanish Users List Subscription/Unsubscription/Modification.

To send an email to the Bacula Spanish Users List, use the following address: bacula-users-es at lists.sourceforge.net. The previous address was modified to prevent easy use by spammers. To use it, you must replace the at with an @ symbol.

bacula-users-fr

The bacula-users-fr list is the general French language forum to ask questions about Bacula or respond to questions from other users. The volume on this list is generally moderate, but can vary. All French speaking users are encouraged to subscribe and to participate. Due to the increasing volume of spam, you must be subscribed before you can send email to this list. To subscribe follow the instructions at: Bacula French Users List Subscription/Unsubscription/Modification.

To send an email to the Bacula French Users List, use the following address: bacula-users-fr at lists.sourceforge.net. The previous address was modified to prevent easy use by spammers. To use it, you must replace the at with an @ symbol.

bacula-users_ru

The bacula-users_ru list is the Russian language list to ask questions about Bacula or respond to questions from other users. All Russian speaking users are encouraged to subscribe and to participate. Answers will be given in Russian by our Bacula-certified russian-speaking developers.

Due to the increasing volume of spam, you must be subscribed before you can send email to this list. To subscribe follow the instructions on this link.

To send an email to the Bacula Russian Users List, use the following address: bacula-users_ru at lists.sourceforge.net. To use it, you must replace the at with an @ symbol.

bacula-devel

The bacula-devel list is for those users who wish to communicate directly with the developers. The email volume is usually quite low (several emails per day), but can vary. Due to the increasing volume of spam, you must be subscribed before you can send email to this list. To subscribe, please follow this link: Bacula Developers List Subscription/Unsubscription/Modification.

To send an email to the Bacula Developers List, use the following address: bacula-devel at lists.sourceforge.net. The previous address was modified to prevent easy use by spammers. To use it, you must replace the at with an @ symbol.

bacula-docs

The bacula-docs list is the general forum to help with the Bacula documentation. The volume on this list low volume. Due to the increasing volume of spam, you must be subscribed before you can send email to this list. To subscribe follow the instructions at: Bacula Docs Subscription/Unsubscription/Modification.

bacula-bugs

The bacula-bugs list is a read only list for those users who wish to be notified about new bugs registered at: https://gitlab.bacula.org. Please do not send email directly to this list bug file a bug report in the bugs database mentioned above. All email to this list other than from the bugs system itself is automatically discarded. To subscribe, follow follow the instructions at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-bugs.

bacula-beta

The bacula-beta list is a read only list for those packagers or users who wish to be notified when a new release is in preparation or is ready. This list is also used for discussions on running regression scripts. Due to the increasing volume of spam, you must be subscribed before you can send email to this list. To subscribe, follow follow the instructions at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-beta.

bacula-commits

The bacula-commits list is a read only list for those users who wish to be receive a diff of each commit to the SVN. Please do not email directly to this list. If you do commits, please subscribe your Source Forge name to this list. Any mail from non-subscribed users is automatically discarded. You may subscribe by following the instructions at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-commits.