Perhaps I missed the flow. I had beaconed and immediately saw a response "zzz HAS VMAILS TO RELAY TO YOU. INVITE zzz TO QSY TO RECEIVE THE VMAILS" (I omitted the callsign.) At which point, the autoqsy window popped, the timer expired, and it qsy'd. I received the vmail and the session disconnected.

After going back and forth between 8.6.2 and 9.2.3, it's now working.

Yes.

#1 So you want a VarAC "telnet" service. #2 If you can't see the other user on the mesh, then you can simply connect to a remote VARA instance (over the network.) This capability already exists. Matt AL0R

While I use VarAC for emcomm work in the USA, differentiating stations that are or are not "emcomm" doesn't matter to me. The areas I work in require known participants, thus I'm not looking for random stations beaconing in emcomm mode. As a communications manager, unknown stations are ignored because I don't know their capabilities. I don't deal in H&W traffic.

I thought I'd add onto this somewhat older post. As an ALE user, there are many applications that must be "dumbd down" to function well. Fortunately, VarAC is happy being left "out of the loop" when it comes to something else controlling the transceiver. There are functions though, such as pskreporter, that base reporting on what VarAC thinks, not what is reality. Thus if you leave reporting enabled, pskreporter will receive the wrong information. Matt AL0R