    Filename....: JAM-001
    Rev.........: 001
    Dated.......: 93-07-01
    Status .....: Released
    Subject.....: JAM message base proposal
    Author......: Joaquim Homrighausen
    Co-Authors..: Andrew Milner, Mats Birch, Mats Wallin

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                                      JAM(mbp)
                    The Joaquim-Andrew-Mats Message Base Proposal
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                Copyright 1993 Joaquim Homrighausen, Andrew Milner,
                               Mats Birch, Mats Wallin.
                                 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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        =====================================================================
        Restrictions
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        JAM may be used by any developer as long as these specifications are
        followed exactly. JAM may be used free-of-charge by any developer
        for any purpose, commercially or otherwise.

        This document may be freely copied and distributed, but must NEVER be
        distributed in a modified form. If you have an enhancement request,
        please contact the author of this document; do not change it
        yourself.

        All applications that support JAM must include one of the following
        notices in their documentation and somewhere in the product's credit
        section:

        "JAM(mbp) - Copyright 1993 Joaquim Homrighausen, Andrew Milner,
                                   Mats Birch, Mats Wallin.
                                   ALL RIGHTS RESERVED."

        or

        "This product uses the JAM(mbp) API -
         Copyright 1993 Joaquim Homrighausen, Andrew Milner, Mats Birch,
                        Mats Wallin. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED."

        No organization, company, person, entity, or other being may impose
        any fees for any reason for providing this document or the
        accompanying API. This document and the accompanying API may not be
        sold or otherwise transferred for personal or company gain under any
        circumstances.

        =====================================================================
        Definitions and general notes
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        CURRENTREV                1

        JAM                       The JAM message base format.

        CRC                       Cyclic Redundancy Check. All CRC values
                                  calculated on strings must assume that the
                                  data within the string has been converted
                                  to lowercase (A-Z = a-z).

        CRC-32                    32-bit CRC (as used in the Zmodem file
                                  transfer protocol) value. The polynom for
                                  a CRC-32 is edb88320H and the CRC-32 seed
                                  is -1L (ffffffffH).

        uchar                     Unsigned 8-bit value

        ushort                    Unsigned 16-bit value

        ulong                     Unsigned 32-bit value

        UNIX date                 An ulong representing the number of seconds
                                  since midnight, January 1, 1970. UNIX-style
                                  dates is the only form of time stamps used
                                  in JAM (1).

        Message #                 The physical record number within the index
                                  file is used as a message number. The
                                  lowest message number is one (1) and the
                                  highest message number is 4294967295
                                  (ffffffffH).

        FTN                       FidoNet Technology Network

        FTS                       FidoNet Technical Standard

        (1) All timestamps created locally (i.e. those not imported from
            other systems) are stored in local time.

        =====================================================================
        Files
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        Each conference is made up from four files. How and where these files
        are stored and named is implementation dependant. The only file with
        a fixed minimum size is the .JHR (header data) file. It has a 1024-
        byte block used to hold information about a specific message area as
        described later.

        filename.JHR - Message header data
        filename.JDT - Message text data
        filename.JDX - Message index
        filename.JLR - Lastread information

        A future revision of JAM may also include a file that holds the
        following three items:

          - The highest assigned user number
          - The last generated message ID
          - A global conference list with the conference name, description,
            and physical location of the message base.

        =====================================================================
        .JHR file header
        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        Below is the format of the 1024-byte record at the beginning of all
        .JHR files. The first actual message header starts at offset 1024 in
        the .JHR file.

        FixedHeaderInfoStruct:
            ulong   Signature;       //  followed by
            ulong   datecreated;     // Creation date
            ulong   modcounter;      // Update counter
            ulong   activemsgs;      // Number of active (not deleted) msgs
            ulong   passwordcrc;     // CRC-32 of password to access
            ulong   basemsgnum;      // Lowest message number in index file
            uchar   RESERVED[1000];  // Reserved space
        end;

        MODCOUNTER must be incremented and updated on disk each time an
        application modifies the contents of the message base. When it
        reaches ffffffffH, it wraps to zero.

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        BaseMsgNum                        Lowest message number in index file
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        This field determines the lowest message number in the index file.
        The value for this field is one (1) when a message area is first
        created. By using this field, a message area can be packed (deleted
        messages are removed) without renumbering it. If BaseMsgNum contains
        500, the first index record points to message number 500.

        BaseMsgNum has to be taken into account when an application
        calculates the next available message number (for creating new
        messages) as well as the highest and lowest message number in a
        message area.

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        ????????.JHR                                          Message headers
        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        The .JHR file contains none or more Header records. Each record
        define one message and contains information about the message and its
        text (if any). The Header record is of variable length. The layout of
        the Header record follows.

        MessageHeader:
            MessageFixedHeader:
                ulong  Signature;    //  followed by
                ushort Revision;     // Revision level of header          (1)
                ushort ReservedWord; // Reserved for future use
                ulong  SubfieldLen;  // Length of subfields               (2)
                ulong  TimesRead;    // Number of times message read
                ulong  MSGIDcrc;     // CRC-32 of MSGID line              (3)
                ulong  REPLYcrc;     // CRC-32 of REPLY line              (3)
                ulong  ReplyTo;      // This msg is a reply to..
                ulong  Reply1st;     // First reply to this msg
                ulong  Replynext;    // Next msg in reply chain
                ulong  DateWritten;  // When msg was written
                ulong  DateReceived; // When msg was read by recipient
                ulong  DateProcessed;// When msg was processed by tosser/
                                     // scanner
                ulong  MessageNumber;// Message number (1-based)
                ulong  Attribute;    // Msg attribute, see "Msg Attributes"
                ulong  Attribute2;   // Reserved for future use
                ulong  Offset;       // Offset of text in ????????.JDT file
                ulong  TxtLen;       // Length of message text
                ulong  PasswordCRC;  // CRC-32 of password to access message
                ulong  Cost;         // Cost of message
            end;
            SubField1                // Extra fields as defined below
            .
            .
            SubFieldXX
        end;

        (1) This field is intended for future revisions of the specifications
            to allow the use of a different fixed-length binary message
            header. The current revision level is one (1).

        (2) The SubfieldLen field is set to zero (0) if the header does not
            have any subfield data. I.e. the length of the binary header is
            not included in this field.

        (3) When calculating the CRC-32 of the MSGID and REPLY lines, the
            text ^aMSGID: and ^aREPLY: should be removed as well as all
            leading and trailing white space characters.

        The SubField structure is made up of an ID, a length specifier, and
        a block of data. Zero or more subfields may follow the fixed-length
        binary header. SubFields are not stored in any specific order and
        are not terminated by any specific character unless otherwise
        specified.

        SubField:
            ushort  LoID;            // Field ID, 0-65535
            ushort  HiID;            // Reserved for future use
            ulong   datlen;          // Length of buffer that follows
            uchar   Buffer[datlen];  // DATLEN bytes of data
        end;

        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        Defined LoID codes
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        ID=0, Name=OADDRESS

        A network address. This is used to specify the originating address.
        More than one OADDRESS field may exist. DATLEN must not exceed 100
        characters. For a FidoNet-style address, this field must follow the
        ZONE:NET/NODE.POINT@DOMAIN format where .POINT is excluded if zero
        and @DOMAIN is excluded if unknown.

        ID=1, Name=DADDRESS

        A network address. This is used to specify the destination address.
        More than one DADDRESS field may exist (e.g. carbon copies). DATLEN
        must not exceed 100 characters. For a FidoNet-style address, this
        field must follow the ZONE:NET/NODE.POINT@DOMAIN format where .POINT
        is excluded if zero and @DOMAIN is excluded if unknown.

        ID=2, Name=SENDERNAME

        The sender (author) of the message. DATLEN must not exceed 100
        characters.

        ID=3, Name=RECEIVERNAME

        The recipient of the message. DATLEN must not exceed 100 characters.

        ID=4, Name=MSGID

        Used to store the message identification data. All data not relevant
        to the actual ID string, including leading and trailing white space
        characters should be removed. DATLEN must not exceed 100 characters.

        ID=5, Name=REPLYID

        Used to store the message reply data. All data not relevant to the
        actual reply string, including leading and trailing white space
        characters should be removed. DATLEN must not exceed 100 characters.

        ID=6, Name=SUBJECT

        The subject of the message. DATLEN must not exceed 100 characters.
        Note that this field may not be used for FidoNet-style file attaches
        or file requests.

        ID=7, Name=PID

        Used to store the FTN PID kludge line. Only the actual PID data is
        stored and ^aPID: is stripped along with any leading and trailing
        white space characters. DATLEN must not exceed 40 characters.

        ID=8, Name=TRACE

        This is also referred to as ^aVia information in FTNs. It contains
        information about a system which the message has travelled through.
        The format of the field is  where:

           YYYY is the year (1992-9999)
             MM is the month (01-12)
             DD is the day (01-31)
             HH is the hour (00-23)
             MM is the minute (00-59)
             SS is the second (00-59)

        The timestamp is stored in ASCII (0-9) characters. The network
        address is the address of the system. It is expressed in ASCII
        notation in the native format of the forwarding system.

        ID=9, Name=ENCLOSEDFILE

        A file attached to the message. Only one filename may be specified
        per subfield. No wildcard characters are allowed. If this subfield
        is present in a message header, the ATTRIBUTE must include the
        MSG_FILEATTACH bit.

        ID=10, Name=ENCLOSEDFILEWALIAS

        Identical to ENCLOSEDFILE with the exception that the filename is
        followed by a  (00H) and an alias filename to be transmited to
        the remote system in place of the local name of the file.

        ID=11, Name=ENCLOSEDFREQ

        A request for one or more files. Only one filemask may be specified
        per subfield. If the filemask contains a complete path, it is to be
        regarded as an update file request. If this subfield is present in a
        message header, the ATTRIBUTE must include the MSG_FILEREQUEST bit.
        To indicate that a password is to be transmitted along with the
        request, a  (00H) character followed by the password is
        appended. E.g. SECRET*.*MYPASSWORD.

        ID=12, Name=ENCLOSEDFILEWCARD

        One or more files attached to the message. Only one filename may be
        specified per subfield. Wildcard characters are allowed. If this
        subfield is present in a message header, the ATTRIBUTE must include
        the MSG_FILEATTACH bit.

        ID=13, Name=ENCLOSEDINDIRECTFILE

        One or more files attached to the message. The filename points to an
        ASCII file with one filename entry per line. If alias filenames are
        to be used, they are specified after the actual filename and
        separated by a  (00H) character, e.g. C:\MYFILE.LZHNEWS.
        Wildcard characters are not allowed.

        ID=1000, Name=EMBINDAT

        Reserved for future use.

        ID=2000, Name=FTSKLUDGE

        An FTS-compliant "kludge" line not otherwise represented here. All
        data not relevant to the actual kludge line, including leading and
        trailing white space and ^A (01H) characters should be removed.
        DATLEN must not exceed 255 characters. The FTS kludges INTL, TOPT,
        and FMPT must never be stored as separate SubFields. Their data must
        be extracted and used for the address SubFields.

        ID=2001, Name=SEENBY2D

        Used to store two-dimensional (net/node) SEEN-BY information often
        used in FTN conference environments. Only the actual SEEN-BY data is
        stored and ^aSEEN-BY: or SEEN-BY: is stripped along with any leading
        and trailing white space characters.

        ID=2002, Name=PATH2D

        Used to store two-dimensional (net/node) PATH information often used
        in FTN conference environments. Only the actual PATH data is stored
        and ^aPATH: is stripped along with any leading and trailing white
        space characters.

        ID=2003, Name=FLAGS

        Used to store the FTN FLAGS kludge information. Note that all FLAG
        options that have binary representation in the JAM message header
        must be removed from the FLAGS string prior to storing it. Only
        the actual flags option string is stored and ^aFLAGS is stripped
        along with any leading and trailing white space characters.

        ID=2004, Name=TZUTCINFO

        Time zone information. This subfield consists of four mandatory
        bytes and one optional. The first character may be a plus (+) or a
        minus (-) character to indicate a location east (plus) or west
        (minus) of UTC 0000. The plus character is implied unless the first
        character is a minus character. The following four bytes must be
        digits in the range zero through nine and indicates the offset in
        hours and minutes. E.g. 0100 indicates an offset of one hour east of
        UTC.

        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        Message attributes
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        MSG_LOCAL       (0x00000001L)   // Msg created locally
        MSG_INTRANSIT   (0x00000002L)   // Msg is in-transit
        MSG_PRIVATE     (0x00000004L)   // Private
        MSG_READ        (0x00000008L)   // Read by addressee
        MSG_SENT        (0x00000010L)   // Sent to remote
        MSG_KILLSENT    (0x00000020L)   // Kill when sent
        MSG_ARCHIVESENT (0x00000040L)   // Archive when sent
        MSG_HOLD        (0x00000080L)   // Hold for pick-up
        MSG_CRASH       (0x00000100L)   // Crash
        MSG_IMMEDIATE   (0x00000200L)   // Send Msg now, ignore restrictions
        MSG_DIRECT      (0x00000400L)   // Send directly to destination
        MSG_GATE        (0x00000800L)   // Send via gateway
        MSG_FILEREQUEST (0x00001000L)   // File request
        MSG_FILEATTACH  (0x00002000L)   // File(s) attached to Msg
        MSG_TRUNCFILE   (0x00004000L)   // Truncate file(s) when sent
        MSG_KILLFILE    (0x00008000L)   // Delete file(s) when sent
        MSG_RECEIPTREQ  (0x00010000L)   // Return receipt requested
        MSG_CONFIRMREQ  (0x00020000L)   // Confirmation receipt requested
        MSG_ORPHAN      (0x00040000L)   // Unknown destination
        MSG_ENCRYPT     (0x00080000L)   // Msg text is encrypted          (1)
        MSG_COMPRESS    (0x00100000L)   // Msg text is compressed         (1)
        MSG_ESCAPED     (0x00200000L)   // Msg text is seven bit ASCII    (1)
        MSG_FPU         (0x00400000L)   // Force pickup
        MSG_TYPELOCAL   (0x00800000L)   // Msg is for local use only
        MSG_TYPEECHO    (0x01000000L)   // Msg is for conference distribution
        MSG_TYPENET     (0x02000000L)   // Msg is direct network mail
        MSG_NODISP      (0x20000000L)   // Msg may not be displayed to user
        MSG_LOCKED      (0x40000000L)   // Msg is locked, no editing possible
        MSG_DELETED     (0x80000000L)   // Msg is deleted

        (1) This revision of JAM does not include compression, encryption, or
            escaping. The bits are reserved for future use.

        =====================================================================
        ????????.JDT                                             Message text
        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        The .JDT file contains the text of messages. The text is stored as an
        stream of seven or eight bit ASCII data. Allowed characters in the
        text are 00H through ffH unless the header ATTRIBUTE field has the
        MSG_ESCAPED bit enabled, in which case the legal range of data is 20H
        through 7eH.

        An escaped character is stored as \ where  is the two digit
        hexadecimal ASCII value of the character. A single \ is stored as \\
        or \5C. The case of the hexadecimal ASCII value is irrelevant, i.e.
        5c is treated as 5C.

        =====================================================================
        ????????.JDX                                            Message index
        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        The .JDX file is used to quickly locate messages for any given user
        name or to locate a message with a specific number. Each record in
        the file consists of two ulongs. The first ulong holds the CRC-32 of
        the recipient's name (lowercase), the second ulong holds the
        physical offset of the message header in the .JHR (header) file.

        The record number (+BaseMsgNum) within the .JDX file determines a
        message's number.

        If both ulongs are -1 (ffffffffH), there is no corresponding message
        header.

        =====================================================================
        ????????.JLR                                         Lastread storage
        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        The .JLR file is used to maintain a user's position within a message
        area. The layout of the "lastread" record follows. One record per
        user is required.

        LastRead:
            ulong   UserCRC;         // CRC-32 of user name (lowercase)   (1)
            ulong   UserID;          // Unique UserID
            ulong   LastReadMsg;     // Last read message number
            ulong   HighReadMsg;     // Highest read message number
        end;

        (1) The functions to convert a string to lowercase characters that
            are provided in the API will only convert characters A-Z (into
            a-z). It is required that this convention is followed by all
            applications.

        The UserID field is a unique number for each user. If the "lastread"
        record is deleted, UserCRC and UserID are both set to -1
        (ffffffffH). An application may not depend on any specific order in
        the .JLR file. A user's "lastread" record may appear anywhere in the
        file and must be searched for when retrieving it and when storing an
        updated record.

        =====================================================================
        Updating message headers
        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        If a header record grows after is has been retrieved from the .JHR
        file, it must be appended to the end of the .JHR file since it would
        overwrite the following header otherwise. The .JDX file must be
        properly updated to indicate the new location of the header record.
        The old header record must be changed to indicate that it has been
        deleted by setting the MSG_DELETED bit in the Attribute field and the
        TextLen field to zero (to prevent a maintenance program from removing
        the message text that is now pointed to by another header).

        =====================================================================
        Message base sharing and locking
        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        To allow several programs to access the message base at any given
        time, region locking is used to protect the message base from being
        corrupted during updates.

        When an application needs to write to any of the message base files,
        it must first attempt to lock the first byte of the .JHR (header)
        file. If the lock call fails, the application must either fail or
        attempt to lock the file again. The message base files may under no
        circumstances be updated if the application cannot successfully lock
        the .JHR file.

        Note that data acquired (read) from the message base may not be used
        when writing data to the message base, unless the application has
        maintained a lock of the message base from the time the data was
        acquired or the MODCOUNTER field is the same as when the data was
        acquired.

        The application must open the files in shareable (DENYNONE) read/
        write or readonly mode. The only exception to this is an application
        that requires exclusive access to the message base, such as a message
        base maintenance utility, it should open the files in non-shareable
        (DENYALL) read/write mode.

        =====================================================================
        Reply threads and linking
        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        JAM introduces a new reply link pointer, not commonly used today.
        This section is an attempt to describe how reply threads, reply
        linking, and this new reply link pointer is implemented in JAM.

        One of the major differences is that reply threads in JAM are not
        based on similar or identical subjects of messages since this method
        does not allow for proper reply threads.

        The method used in JAM is based on the immediate relation between any
        given message and direct replies to it. This is supported by many
        message editors by using the MSGID and REPLY FTS kludge fields. These
        are common, although expressed differently, in messages not based on
        FidoNet technology, such as RFC-822. The obvious advantages include
        allowing a program to easily find the original message to a reply,
        and to find all replies to any given message.

        The reply thread information consists of three fields: ReplyTo,
        Reply1st, and ReplyNext. The reason for three fields, as opposed to
        just two, is that with two fields, it is only possible to keep track
        of the original message of a reply (which is sufficient) and one
        reply to any given message (which is not sufficient). With three
        fields, it is possible to maintain a thread of any number of replies
        to any given message.

        In the description of the different fields below, the following
        messages and message numbers will be referred to:

          1 -> 2 -> 4 -> 5
          :    :
          :    +--> 8
          :
          +--> 3 -> 7
          :
          +--> 6

        Message number two, three, and six are replies to message number one.
        Message number four and eight are replies to message number two.
        Message number seven is a reply to message number three.
        Message number five is a reply to message number four.

        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        ReplyTo
        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        This field holds the number of the message that this message is a
        reply to. In the example above, the ReplyTo field would contain the
        following values:

        Message number one would contain zero; message number two, three, and
        six, would contain one; message number four and eight would contain
        two; message number seven would contain three, and message number
        five would contain four.

        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        Reply1st
        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        This field holds the number of the first message that is a reply to
        this message. In the example above, the Reply1st field would contain
        the following values:

        Message number one would contain two, message number three would
        contain seven, and message number four would contain five. All other
        messages would contain zero.

        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        ReplyNext
        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        This field is used to create the actual message thread or chain. In
        the event that there is more than one reply to any given message, it
        is necessary to maintain a thread of all the replies; this is due to
        the fact that the original message can only hold information about
        the first reply (the Reply1st field) to it.

        The first reply (which the original message's Reply1st field holds),
        has its ReplyNext field pointing to the second reply, the second
        reply's ReplyNext field poinst to the third reply, and so on.

        In the example above, the ReplyNext field would contain the following
        values:

        Message number two would contain three, message number three would
        contain six, and message number four would contain eight. All other
        messages would contain zero.

        =====================================================================
        Contacts
        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
        Joaquim Homrighausen                            Telefax: +352 316 702
        389, route d'Arlon                                Modem: +352 316 702
        L-8011 Strassen                               eMail: 2:270/17@fidonet
        Luxembourg                                                joho@abs.lu

        Andrew Milner                                   Telefax: +352 251 621
        9a, Boulevard Joseph II                           Modem: +352 251 621
        L-1840 Belair                                 eMail: 2:270/18@fidonet
        Luxembourg                                             andrew@fido.lu

        Mats Wallin                                    Telefax: +46 8 6453285
        F”rskottsv„gen 11                                Modem: +46 8 6453882
        S-126 44 H„gersten                           eMail: 2:201/329@fidonet
        Sweden                                                     mw@fido.lu

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