Reference: Files and Directories

Directory Layout:

   (root)
     |
     |
     +-- Server
     |     |
     |     +-- (server names)
     |
     +-- Groups
     |     |
     |     +-- News.Out
     |     |
     |     +-- (newsgroup names)
     |
     +-- Mails
     |     |
     |     +-- Mail.Out
     |     |
     |     +-- admin
     |     |
     |     +-- (account names)
     |
     +-- Logs

Files in "(root)":

HService.exe Hamster's service program.
HControl.exe Hamster's control program
Hamster.chm Hamster's helpfile.
Hamster.hlp Hamster's old helpfile (up to Vr. 1.9).
Hamster.ini Contains Application Settings and Hamster Settings
Changes.txt Version-history.
Groups.hst List of Hamster-newsgroups.
Pulls.hst List of newsgroups to pull from newsservers.
Server.hst List of NNTP servers.
SrvPOP3.hst List of POP3 servers.
SrvSMTP.hst List of SMTP servers.
Password.!!! Password-settings.
Accounts.!!! Local accounts and their settings.
IPAccess.hst Allow/refuse connections based on client-addresses.
RCProfiles.hst Access profiles for Remote Control server.
Scores.hst Scorefile used when pulling news.
MailFilt.hst Filters used when fetching mails.
MListFilt.hst Filters used to clear mailing lists advertising footers.
MailTrap.hst Mail Traps
*.hml Mail List files (properties and members).
SmtpRouter.hst Definitions and rules for sending mails in MX mode.
HscActions.hst Script Actions.
h*.hsc demo*.hsc Hamster-Scripts

Files in "(root)\Server":

allpulls.txt Old file - not used any more.
alldescs.txt Contains a list of all available groups with their descriptions.
Format: group-name TAB group-description

Files in "(root)\Server\(servernames)":

Greeting.txt Initial greeting-message of server.
Groups.txt Grouplist of server.
Help.txt Helpfile of server.
NewGrps.txt List of new groups on server ("Groups.txt" will be updated also).
GrpDescs.txt List of group-descriptions loaded from server.
Overview.txt Supported overview-fields of server.
Server.ini Server-specific settings. Contains Server Settings
GetMids.txt List of Message-IDs to pull from server (used for loading articles at "Killfile-Log -> Mark article for retrieval"). If a Message-ID is preceded with "!", it will be pulled from server, even if it's already marked as "known" in the history-file.

Files in "(root)\Groups":

History.dat Old file - not used any more.
Hist4??.dat A list of article-infos (primarily a MD5-hash of Message-ID) used to recognize already loaded articles and to find again articles by Message-ID later.
Kills.log Overview-lines of articles not loaded due to scorefile-settings.

Files in "(root)\Groups\News.Out":

*.msg Messages posted to the local NNTP-server (each article in a separate textfile). They will be deleted after posting it on a newsserver.

Files in "(root)\Groups\(groupnames)":

data.dat Article-data.
data.idx Index of articles stored in "data.dat".
data.ini Contains Group Settings

Files in "(root)\Mails":

MHistory.dat Similar to the history-files in the groups-directory, this file is used to recognize already loaded mails.

Files in "(root)\Mails\Mail.Out":

*.msg Mails sent to the local SMTP-server (each mail in a separate textfile; leading SMTP-envelope-lines are marked with an exclamation-mark "!"). The mails will be deleted after they have been sent out to an external SMTP-server.

Files in "(root)\Mails\admin":

*.msg Mails loaded from external POP3-servers (each mail in a separate textfile).

Files in "(root)\Logs":

0.log, 1.log, 2.log, ... Hamster session-logfiles. Each time Hamster is started or midnight passes, the files are shifted up by 1 (0.log->1.log,1.log->2.log, ...). "0.log" is always the most current logfile.
MailFilters-YYYY-MM.log Log of all mail filters, that were actually involved when deleting a mail message.
MailIn-YYYY-MM.log Contains infos for each mail, fetched from external POP3-servers.
MailOut-YYYY-MM.log Contains infos for each mail, sent to external SMTP-servers.
MailTraps-YYYY-MM.log Log of all Mail Traps that matched an incoming mail message.
RasDial-YYYY-MM.log Contains an entry for each dial-up connection initiated by Hamster.
*.htm Hamster Reports
ReportTitles.txt Report titles of *.htm files shown in HControl
NntpServer-YYYY-MM.log Messages posted on local NNTP server.
SmtpServer-YYYY-MM.log Messages sent to local SMTP server.

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