Victor, > I've been reading through the list and there's this mysterious > email client called VA that's being talked about.
There's nothing mysterious about Virtual Access (VA)! It's probably more well known amongst CIX (a british conferencing service) or Compuserve users. It has existed in various guises (Wigwam, Teepee, PowWow and VA) for over ten years. Aside from being an excellent OLR for CIX and CIS it is also a very capable mail and news client. It can handle an essentially unlimited number of mail accounts and newsservers. It's main strengths are excellent threading and very robust handling of a large messagebase. My VA messagebase is, for example, about 2 GB and the programme is as fast and stable as it was the day I installed it about seven years ago. I have heard of others with messagebases of over 8 GB. Sadly, VA has not been actively developed for over two years now and does not support stuff like outgoing HTML mail, Unicode, yEnc encoding etc. but otherwise it is fully functional for good old-fashioned mail and news. Hence the influx of bemused VA users recently infesting this forum. There are rumours that at least parts of VA may be made open sorce at some point but, as yet, it is not certain if or when that will happen. You can take a look here at http://www.atlantic-coast.com/va/ if you're interested. -- Ian Petersen ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60c FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
