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How do I install VA?

Daniel James — 2012-05-15T23:35:05+02:00

How do I install VA? That depends on what you've downloaded. Full VAOS releases are now always provided as installer programs. If you have one of these you can just run the installer and it will be able to make a new VAOS installation or upgrade an existing VA or VAOS installation. The installer will ask you where you would like to install VAOS, and will automatically upgrade if you specify a directory containing an existing installation.

The Index File - created

Daniel James — 2012-03-24T23:25:59+02:00

The Index File The Index File is a binary file containing message and thread indexes for the folder. The contents are * A fixed-length header containing: * A version number (16 bits == 0x2aFF) * The number of the first message in the folder (32 bits) * The number of the last message in the folder (32 bits) * Two bytes with the value 0xff (an unused 2-byte message count) * The number of messages in the folder (32 bits)

The Message Thread File - Reverted

Daniel James — 2012-03-24T21:39:33+02:00

The Message Thread File The Message Thread File is a binary file containing thread information. This file consists of a sequence of VAOS syntext structures for all the messages in the folder in messagebase order. A syntext structure is a fixed length structure containing

Virtual Access Dokuwiki. - Added welcome and version

Daniel James — 2012-03-19T12:12:05+02:00

Welcome to the support wiki for the Virtual Access Open Source mail/news client. The current version of VAOS is and can be downloaded from SourceForge here VAOS 6 Progress What's new in VAOS 6? Release Notes New VAOS Manual in progress Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Boosting VAOS

Daniel James — 2012-02-01T18:30:46+02:00

This is a short step-by-step guide for getting the Boost libraries in Visual Studio and use it in VAOS. Notes by Kai with a few changes and additions by Daniel. And a minor change by Mike. Building Boost is much simplified since version 1.34 of it, so please follow the 1.34 instructions. 1.33 instructions are kept for reference.

How to Build VAOS - Updated. Added reference to Aspell.

Daniel James — 2012-02-01T01:15:28+02:00

How to Build VAOS To build the full VAOS package from source you will need: * The VAOS source from CVS * For the main VAOS programs * The Boost libraries (see Building the Boost libraries for VAOS). * A C++ compilation system - we currently use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.

Building the Boost libraries for VAOS - created - replaces "howtoboost"

Daniel James — 2012-02-01T00:57:28+02:00

Note This page supersedes the old instructions which are still here for reference. If you need to rebuild a VAOS release earlier than 6.3.0.4 you will need to look at the old instructions. The Boost library project provides a number of high-quality free sourcecode libraries for C++ development. Many of these are written in such a way that one need only include the appropriate Boost header file in the C++ source, but some are written to be compiled to object code libraries.

Developer Info

Daniel James — 2012-01-31T23:31:01+02:00

Useful Information for VAOS Developers. * How to build VAOS * How to use VAOS CVS * Building the Boost libraries for VAOS * Notes on preparing a VAOS release * Sourceforge CVS Howto * Browse CVS on the Web * Building and Running VAOS with spellchecker support * VAOS SpellChecker implementation * Tips when using VS 2005 * Subversion client settings * VAOS File Formats

Ashmount.ini variables used by INET32 and INTDLG32

Nikki Locke — 2012-01-21T18:08:29+02:00

Document Revision: 1.3 Main section [Main] Ini variable nameDefaultNotesAliasesService name aliasesExe PathWhere VA32 is foundMessage PathVA main directory – service directories are under this one. Usually same as Exe Path.Proxy PasswordProxy Port1080 for socks, 8080 for webWeb default should probably be 80, not 8080Proxy Server127.0.0.1(i.e. localhost)Proxy Type0Type of proxy to use 1 = Web, 2 = socksProxy UserUsername if proxy requires logging onRule Debug FileName of file to log rule debu…

Cross platform GUI libraries - Added bold headings, removed SmartWin (not cross-platform)

Daniel James — 2011-09-10T13:46:28+02:00

wxWidgets A very richly-featured cross-platform toolkit. Free and Open Source. The emphasis is on portability, so some of the most modern C++ language features are not used. "wxWidgets Licence" (LGPL with additional permissions).

I think I found a bug! What should I do? - created

Daniel James — 2011-09-04T18:50:35+02:00

I think I found a bug! What should I do? Don't Panic! VAOS is a large and complex piece of software ... it works pretty well, but the developers are only human and it's not inconceivable there may be errors. It's also possible that in the ever-changing world of internet communications you may have received a message sent in a new way of a new format that VAOS can't yet handle. If that happens we'd like to know about it.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) - Added bug report FAQ

Daniel James — 2011-09-04T18:20:43+02:00

The other FAQs * There are some older FAQs still on the Tikiwiki, these are slowly being updated and moved here. The New FAQs Setting up VA General Instructions for Downloading and Installing * What versions of VA are available? * What do I need to run VA? * Where can I download VA? * How do I install VA? * Where should I install VA? * What's this VCLHtml.dll file? Do I need that? * Does VA run on 64-bit Windows?