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The [Developer Mailing List](https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@hertzbeat.apache.org) is the community-recommended way to communicate and obtain the latest information.

Before you post anything to the mailing lists, be sure that you already **subscribe** to them.

## Usages

### Developer List

- Use this list for your HertzBeat questions
- Used by HertzBeat contributors to discuss development of HertzBeat

|     List Name      |         Address          |                       Subscribe                        |                        Unsubscribe                         |                                Archive                                 |
|--------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Developer List** | [dev@hertzbeat.apache.org](mailto:dev@hertzbeat.apache.org) | [subscribe](mailto:dev-subscribe@hertzbeat.apache.org) | [unsubscribe](mailto:dev-unsubscribe@hertzbeat.apache.org) | [archive](https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@hertzbeat.apache.org) |

### Notification List

- Notifications on changes to the HertzBeat codebase

|       List Name       |              Address               |                            Subscribe                             |                             Unsubscribe                              |                                     Archive                                      |
|-----------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Notification List** | [notifications@hertzbeat.apache.org](mailto:notifications@hertzbeat.apache.org) | [subscribe](mailto:notifications-subscribe@hertzbeat.apache.org) | [unsubscribe](mailto:notifications-unsubscribe@hertzbeat.apache.org) | [archive](https://lists.apache.org/list.html?notifications@hertzbeat.apache.org) |

## Steps for Subscription

Sending a subscription email is also very simple. The steps are as follows:

- 1、**Subscribe**: Click the **subscribe** button in the above table, and it redirects to your mail client. The subject and content are arbitrary.
  After that, you will receive a confirmation email from [dev-help@hertzbeat.apache.org](mailto:dev-help@hertzbeat.apache.org) (if not received, please confirm whether the email is automatically classified as SPAM, promotion email, subscription email, etc.).
- 2、**Confirm**: Reply directly to the confirmation email, or click on the link in the email to reply quickly. The subject and content are arbitrary.
- 3、**Welcome**: After completing the above steps, you will receive a welcome email with the subject WELCOME to [dev@hertzbeat.apache.org](mailto:dev@hertzbeat.apache.org), and you have successfully subscribed to the Apache HertzBeat mailing list.

## Post Plain Text Mails

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**Do not use HTML emails**.
HTML emails are more likely to be targeted as spam mails and rejected.
It may get malformed through different mail clients and not easily readable by others.