VM 8.2.0a released

Written for VM by Uday Reddy on 2011-05-19

Final alpha testing release for 8.2.0. This release incorporates over 100 bug fixes of various kinds. The customize interface has been cleaned up (thanks to Tim Cross). The build scripts have been revised to use the standard installation conventions and install the doc files. New features include plain-text forwarding of messages, point-to-point and drag-n-drop attachment operations, improvements to virtual folders, and verbosity control for VM's progress messages. See the NEWS file for full details.