As well as the method Liz mentioned it is also possible to access and search the mailing list archives at
https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-user@gnucash.org/ https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-devel@gnucash.org/ You need to have existing membership of the mailing list. I cannot remember whether or not this site will request membership if you are not already a list member. David Cousens On Sun, 2025-02-09 at 20:21 +0900, Bo Buckley wrote: > In the docs: > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash_Forum > > If claims: > > > The *GnuCash project* does *not* use ancient *forum* software for > > its > > online user support. It uses mailing list technology. > > > I'm completely lost as to the advantage of using a mailing list over > an > indexed searchable forum, Github Discussions, or otherwise. In > particular > I'm really struggling to find a way to find if my existing issue has > already been discussed somewhere as the only thing indexed appears to > be > bugzilla and the FAQs. > > According to the mailing list docs: > > > Currently, there is no on-site mechanism to search the mailing > > lists > > *and the search link on the archive page is broken.*Instead, use > > the term > > "site:lists.gnucash.org" at Google or Yahoo! to search within the > > archives, e.g. > > http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alists.gnucash.org+string+to+search > > > > I'm not sure if this worked well at one point, but it definitely does > not > work well for me now. See attached screenshot. It appears Google's > crawler > somehow finds its way to all the docs and other general content via > the > lists.gnucash.org, so it is not filtering out hardly anything as I > would > expect. The only alternative approach I can find is to browse (not > search) > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/, which I think > everyone > can appreciate to not be an exactly speedy process. > > Is there a better way to verify existing discussions/issues > (including this > one)? > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
