Here is a list of the changes between VA 4.50/4.51 and 4.52

The full internal list comprises some 100 plus items, many of which would never be seen by most users in the normal course of event.  What is listed here are the major things that may affect most users, the major bugs that could be seen as well as the major improvements and new facilities.   

Please note that these bug fixes, improvements and new facilities are not documented in the help, this is the only place that they are detailed (other than in the program itself).  

This document is available as va452.rtf in the directory you install Virtual Access to, but I think it would be wise for you to print it out.  
Horrible Bugs Fixed:
New version of Import32.exe included that fixes the mail name being set to Unknown if mail rules cause a copy of a message to be placed in more than one folder.  

There was a major bug in 4.50 that if you did not have a CIX or CIS service installed VA would not run at all.  Fixed.  

If you closing VA with an editor window opened then you were not warned and the editor text was lost.  

Putting ‘Fetch Mail' on hold or deleting it for Net services was not working – if you had a mail server defined then VA was always checking it.  

Fixed problem with downloading a combination of full and header messages from a CompuServe forum having one of the actions stripped out.

Added sender's email address to printed messages.

Mail
We have improved threading in mail by subject to be a little more lenient in what it accepts.

We have added a decode option to warn people before overwriting already existing decoding attachments (tools, options, decode)

Default Mail Service option added to the tools, options dialog.  This will make new mail go via the defined service (which can be the current service or a nominated service).  Replies go via the current service.  You can override this using the service selector in the mail editor at the top.  

Reapply mail rules.  You can now have all mail for a service passed through your mail rules using the reapply button in the mail rules dialog.  There are a couple of major caveats to this:
1)	All keep/delete/lock/read/unread/bookmark flags for all mail items in that service will be lost.  All the mail will be marked as unread.  
2)	It applies to all mail folders under a particular service so any manual moving of messages that you have done will be lost.  

Mail that is copied back to yourself is now done using BCC for CIS and Net services – however this is not done for CIX mail as CIX does not support that feature.  If you want to do this for CIX then sqitch to using it’s POP3 mail service.  

Mail services can be removed from the dropdown in the editor by putting 
'Mail Disabled=YES' in the [Service XXX] section of ASHMOUNT.INI.  Note this is Useful if 
you want to disable mail in the CIX or CIX service because you have it all forwarded to your relevant POP3 account.

Interface
Next Unread (i.e. Enter key) now takes you straight to the first unread message in the next folder rather than visiting the last root message/thread before doing so.  
This also helps backtracking (ctrl+z) as you no longer goto the final thread when doing so.

Compuserve private messages – we have change the accelerator to Alt+R from Alt+I to prevent the accidental hitting of Alt+O OK’ing the message.

Mail and Newsgroup messages are sorted into date/time order before they are imported – this should help improve threading.

The buttons in the editor window have been put back to where they were before.  

Reverse Chronological is now available as a viewing option in the threads pane

Edit, Find now scrolls the text so that the first occurrence is visible, and if invoked with text selected in the viewer then that text has any characters escaped so that the search will be for the characters selected.

File, Print now works from the message editor

The state of the 'delete messages from original folder...' & the 'append and renumber...' check boxes in the send to menu is now saved when the program exits.

Attachments are now allowed in newsgroups in both root messages and replies.

Signatures separated by "-- " now stop quoting at that point.

Best Wishes
The Virtual Access Team.