JAM Message Base Format

The JAM Message Base Format was the most popular^{[citation needed]} file format for storing message bases on DOS-based BBSes in the 1990s. JAM stands for "Joaquim-Andrew-Mats" after the original authors of the API Joaquim Homrighausen, Andrew Milner, Mats Birch, and Mats Wallin.^[1] Joaquim was the author of FrontDoor, a DOS based FidoNet compatible Mailer. Andrew was the author of RemoteAccess, a popular DOS based Bulletin Board System. JAM was originally released in 1993 in C, however the most popular implementation was Mark May's "MK Source for Msg Access" written in Pascal which also saw its initial released in 1993.^[2]

BBS software

• EleBBS
• EzyCom
• MBSE
• Mystic BBS
• Nexus BBS
• RemoteAccess
• ProBoard
• TAG (BBS)
• TCRA32
• Telegard

Mail import/export software

• Crashmail II - A portable Fidonet tosser for JAM messagebases
• FastEcho - FTN tosser
• FMail - FTN tosser
• Gecho - FTN tosser
• HPT - FTN tosser
• IMail - FTN tosser
• Regina-Tosser/2
• WaterGate
• xMail 1.00 - FTN tosser
• Partoss (Parma tosser) - FTN tosser

Mail reading/editing software

• FM - Sysop's local access reader/editor from FrontDoor mailer package
• GoldED - Sysop's local access reader/editor
• Hector/DOS
• RAVIP
• ReadMsg - BBS door that replaces builtin message base option
• TheReader v4.50 - BBS door that replaces builtin message base option
• TimED - Sysop's local access reader/editor
• WebJammer

Offline QWK/Bluewave software

• Bluewave
• Jc-QWK
• OffLine Message System (OLMS2000)

Mail posting tools

(this software posts ASCII text files to JAM bases as messages)

• ChargePost
• JPost
• MPost
• PostIt - posts text files to local, netmail, and echomail areas
• RemoteAccess Automated Message System (RAMS) - posts welcome, thanks for the upload, and similar automated messages to users
• WriteJAM

Statistics tools

(this software gathers statistical information)

• JAMStat - statistics bulletin generator
• MyMail
• QRatio
• ReadDetect
• Traffic v1.10

Maintenance tools

• Automatic Maintenance Pro
• CVTMSG10
• MK Message Utilities - convert between JAM and other message base formats
• NetMgr 1.00 - netmail manager
• The NetMail Importer (NetImp)
• Y2Ktool - Fido Year 2000 Tools Rel. 6

Mail tools and utility software

(this software fills some other utilitarian need not covered in another category listing) (some of this software is listed here because it hasn't been categorized)

• ALTAIR
• AMC
• Fidonet Awk Utility
• FMACopy
• MailBox 1.05
• MessageBase Reporter
• MSGRead 2.20
• MSGRA
• OM and OMlite
• RACD
• SHUT UP AND RUN THE MAIL
• VPJAM
• XSH

Other JAM capable software

• JamNNTPd - Jam based NNTP server, uses the JAM message format
• Message Base Spy - message base research, troubleshooting and development tool

Notes

Renegade (BBS) make use of the Pascal JAM libraries but has its own native message base format.

References

1. ^ http://dissent612.com/development/JAMAPI/JAM.DOC
2. ^ Filename MKSM106.ZIP (maybe be found in ZIP, LZH or ARJ archive formats)

External links

• JAM Compatible software from the BBS Archives
• JAMLib v1.3 C library - branch split from sourceforge - maintained by Johan Billing
• JAMLib v1.4 C library - shared library version - maintained by Sir Raorn
• http://dissent612.com/development/
• http://www.bsdg.org/SWAG/MAIL/0031.PAS.html