YAM (Yet Another Mailer)

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YAM - Yet Another Mailer

YAM running on AmigaOS4/PPC
Developer:	YAM Open Source Team
Latest release:	2.4p1 / May 25, 2003
OS:	AmigaOS, MorphOS
Use:	E-mail client
License:	GPL
Website:	www.yam.ch

YAM (short for Yet Another Mailer) is a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, a configurable GUI (based on MUI) and an ARexx interface and many other features which are common for Mail User Agents (MUA) today.

1 History
2 References
3 Further reading
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

Back in 1995, Marcel Beck started the initial development of YAM and released the first version to public Amiga users. While this first version (v1) was still very limited in its features the successor version (v2) introduced much more advanced features. The 2.2 version was then also rated as the best e-mail client for Amiga computers back in 1998. This was probably also because YAM has been a freeware product right from the start, allowing Amiga users to travel into the great world of e-mails with a product they did not have to spend money on.

Then in late 2000 Marcel left the Amiga development but luckily decided to release the source code of YAM under the GPL open source license. This allowed to find a group of developers working on the further development of this unique e-mail client for Amiga computers. Already one year later the open-source developer crew released the 2.3 version showing the Amiga community that the development of YAM hasn't stopped at all.

And today, after even more years the development of YAM has advanced some more and is now aiming to bring up YAM to a level where it is comparable to other mail clients like Thunderbird. Features like IMAP and LDAP functionality are planned but should not reach the community in the very near future because the development resources of the YAM project are quite limited, of course.

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[edit] Further reading

Nikola Smolenski. "YAM (Yet Another Mailer)", Svet Kompjutera, September 1998.
"YAM" (PDF), Clubbed, Total Amiga, pp. 24–25.
Adam Hough (July 1996). YAM (Yet Another Mailer) v1.2 Review. Computer Equipment and Software Reviews.
Adam Hough (August 1996). Yet Another Mailer 1.3 (YAM) Review. Computer Equipment and Software Reviews.
Uwe Röhm. "YAM 1.3.2 — Yet Another Mailer", AMIGA-Magazin, 1996-11-11.
Jérome Chappuis. "En pratique : configuration de YAM (Yet Another Mailer)", Obligement, March 2002. (in French) — third-party documentation for YAM