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In article <244799584wnr@geordie.demon.co.uk>
           Simon@geordie.demon.co.uk "Simon Crute" writes:

>Hi,
>  I was wondering if anyone could point me to a document describing the format,
>and logic used in creating the .wrk files that NewsWin and PCELM create in the
>/demon/spool/mqueue directory. 

I don't know that they're described anywhere. The answer is that the
.wrk file describes the SMTP delivery envelope, and the format is:

first line: the host that the message is to be delivered to
second line: the address of the sender ("RFC 821 Envelope From")
third line: the address that the message is to be delivered to
fourth and subsequent lines: other addresses for delivery

Note that none of these have any necessary relationship to anything
in the .txt file (which holds the RFC 822 message).

So a .wrk file of:

post.demon.co.uk
maillist-request@smof.demon.co.uk
simon@geordie.demon.co.uk
100144.3343@compuserve.com

would be a legal .wrk file for a message forwarded by a mailing list
at smof.demon.co.uk using post.demon.co.uk as a smart host, even
though none of the four elements appears in the .txt file.

Hope this helps,

Tim

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