Can I edit these using vi before I move them from UNIX to NT?  I have some
lists that are going somewhere else and will need to have the pathway for
Notebook changed.
----- Original Message -----
From: <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: Where does the Header actually live?


> 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...
>
> --
>                                 Valdis Kletnieks
>                                 Operating Systems Analyst
>                                 Virginia Tech
>