The JAM Message Base Format was one of the most popular file formats of message bases on DOS

DOS

DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related...

-based BBSes

Bulletin board system

A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging...

 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. Joaquim was the author of FrontDoor

FrontDoor

FrontDoor was one of the most popular mailers in the FidoNet-compatible networks in the 1990s acting as the physical representation of the written network node connection and mail handling standards. It was a DOS-based shareware written by Joaquim Homrighausen...

, a DOS-based FidoNet

FidoNet

FidoNet is a worldwide computer network that is used for communication between bulletin board systems. It was most popular in the early to mid 1990s, prior to the introduction of easy and affordable access to the Internet...

-compatible mailer. Andrew was the author of RemoteAccess

RemoteAccess

RemoteAccess is a DOS Bulletin Board System software package written by Andrew Milner and was published by his company Wantree Development in Australia. RemoteAccess was written in Turbo Pascal with some Assembly Language routines. RemoteAccess began in 1989 as a clone of QuickBBS by Adam Hudson...

, a popular DOS-based Bulletin Board System

Bulletin board system

A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging...

. 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 release in 1993.

BBS software

• EleBBS
• Ezycom
  Ezycom
  Ezycom is a shareware bulletin board system application first introduced for MS-DOS by Peter Davies. It is still in active development and currently being developed by Stephen Gibbs and the Ezycom Development Team. The current version of Ezycom is v2.15g2, which was released on 21st April, 2010...
  
  
• LoraBBS
• MBSE
• Mystic BBS
  Mystic BBS
  Mystic BBS is a bulletin board system software program started in 1994. Mystic is the first DOS-based BBS software program to support a native telnet server...
  
  
• Nexus BBS
• RemoteAccess
  RemoteAccess
  RemoteAccess is a DOS Bulletin Board System software package written by Andrew Milner and was published by his company Wantree Development in Australia. RemoteAccess was written in Turbo Pascal with some Assembly Language routines. RemoteAccess began in 1989 as a clone of QuickBBS by Adam Hudson...
  
  
• ProBoard
• TAG (BBS)
  TAG (BBS)
  T.A.G. is a DOS-based bulletin board system software program, released from 1986 to 2000.T.A.G. was written in Borland Pascal and is free for business or personal use ....
  
  
• TCRA32
• Telegard
  Telegard
  Telegard is an early bulletin board system software program written for IBM PC-compatible computers running MS-DOS and OS/2. Telegard was written in Pascal with routines written in C++ and assembly language, based on a copy of the WWIV source code....
  
  

Mail import/export software

• Crashmail II - A portable Fidonet tosser for JAM messagebases
• AllFix - File Tosser (can read control messages from and post messages into a JAM messagebase)
• Altair - FTN tosser
• FastEcho
  FastEcho
  FastEcho is a message processing package for FTN mail systems. It was written and released as shareware by Tobias Burchhardt in 1991. The latest available version is 1.46.1 which was released in 1997. FastEcho was one of the fastest FTN mail processing packages available for FTN style messages...
  
   - FTN tosser
• FMail - FTN tosser
• Gecho - FTN tosser
• HPT (Fidonet) - FTN tosser
• IMail - FTN tosser
• Regina-Tosser/2
• WaterGate
• xMail 1.00 - FTN tosser
• Partoss (Parma tosser) - FTN tosser
• TosScan - FTN tosser

Mail reading/editing software

• FrontDoor FM
  FrontDoor
  FrontDoor was one of the most popular mailers in the FidoNet-compatible networks in the 1990s acting as the physical representation of the written network node connection and mail handling standards. It was a DOS-based shareware written by Joaquim Homrighausen...
  
   - Sysop's local access reader/editor from FrontDoor package
• FrontDoor APX
  FrontDoor
  FrontDoor was one of the most popular mailers in the FidoNet-compatible networks in the 1990s acting as the physical representation of the written network node connection and mail handling standards. It was a DOS-based shareware written by Joaquim Homrighausen...
  
   - Integrated reader/editor from FrontDoor APX package
• GoldED
  GoldED (message editor)
  GoldED was a popular message editor for FidoNet-compatible computer networks.In 1998, Odinn Sørensen released the source code of GoldED and Goldware Utilities 3.x under GNU General Public License version 2, and the Goldware Library under GNU Library General Public License version 2...
  
   - 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
  TIMED
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   - 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
• Ftrack and RNtrack - netmail tracker (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)

• 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

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