VAOS is completely open source; if you find bugs we are allowed to fix them.
Printing (messages, addressbook)
Editor
GUI: Followup-to handling
Editor
GUI: X-No-Archive support
Message display: ability to format Header and Message Body differently
Message display: better display of
HTML messages
Message display: style sheet support
Message display: multiline
URL continuation (possible continuation lines are marked with an arrow indicator and can be clicked separately)
Message display: "native" support for UTF-8 and many other character-sets
Message display: X toggles to View Source
Message display: display png images
Window positions: Can store multiple sets in each user.ini (for different screen sizes, etc)
Message display: T toggles Text/
HTML part of message (6.3) (off by default)
Message display: Z toggles to new
MIME viewer (6.3) (on by default)
Message display: TopBar on top of the message (will not scroll away) with Infobox and the "typical" short header information (6.3)
Message display: Default Character-Set option (unused in 6.3, will come back later)
SHIFT+F10 accelerator gives context menu
"Fetch Full Message" and "Mark Message As" on threads pane context menu
service-level custom headers for news services in user.ini
allow address book abbreviations to be expanded as two parts (e.g. "m g" or "g,m" for "Mike Goodey" or "Goodey, Mike")
Feedservice: external support for fetching and aggregating
RSS Feeds (
RSS 1.0, 2.0 and Atom) (6.2) (Requires external Feedservice add-on - see
VAOS Feedservice)
Feedservice: import of
RSS Feed messages from Feedservice to new service Feeds (6.2)
Spellchecker: Bindings for GNU ASpell, new options (ignore acronyms, URLs; omit attribution and/or signature from check) (6.3) (Requires
GNU ASpell)
Spellchecker: Options (language, etc.) can be set per-folder in user.ini (6.3)
Menu/Toolbar commands to toggle 'Portraits' window (6.3)
Please look here for a table of new ini options
numerous fixes char → unsigned char
numerous buffer overflow fixes
Editor: greyed out
MIME option for attachments to newsgroups
correction to ini file writing to strip trailing spaces
don't add drive letters to paths in ashmount.ini anymore
fixed some scrollbar behavior in threads pane
some fixes to base64 handling
made auto-indent, overwrite mode and wordback deletion work again (message editor)
comms dialog doesn't loop anymore when only one service
fixed crash when importing in chronological read order
corrected handling of %USERNAME%, %DATE% and %MESSAGEID% in attributions in CIX messages
large attachments send without getting corrupted
SMTP comms ports displayed with correct sense (client=outgoing, server=incoming) in VA32. Dialog made clearer.
