On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:20:11 EST, "Margaret J. Brandt" <[log in to unmask]>  said:

> I keep being asked by folks where the headers are stored in Unix and
> NT server versions of LISTSERV 1.8d.  I've always understood that
> the header was not stored in one place.  Am I wrong?

If you mean the actual list definitions, those (at least on Unix) live
in ~listserv/home/your-list.list  (where ~listserv is the Listserv userid's
home directory, and your-list is the listname.

If you mean the e-mail headers for an outbound message, this gets a BIT
more interesting.  Sendmail usually stores a message in 2 parts, usually
referred to as a 'df' and 'qf' file.  The 'df' file contains the message
body, while the 'qf' file has all the RFC822 headers, plus the RFC821 SMTP
recipient list and other control information (such as the message priority,
the time the message was enqueued, and so on).

If I've not answered the question, please feel free to re-ask with more
details...

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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech