MacSOUP

Worked around a possible crash on startup with certain kinds of Address Book corruption.
With very large Address Books, typing in the address fields of an email editor window was very sluggish.
The Services menu now works in Snow Leopard.
MacSOUP's scripting dictionary can be opened again with the AppleScript editor in Leopard.
Minor fixes.

Fixed problems when running under Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5):
- Very low data rates when connecting to the server
- Bogus error message when clicking in the All Groups or New Groups window
Fixed possible crash with the address completion window.

No longer uses 100% CPU while connecting to the server.
Fixed crash on startup when the address book contains groups with an empty name. (It isn't possible to create such groups with the Address Book application, but third-party sync tools can apparently create them.)
Correctly reports Mac OS version in UserAgent header for versions 10.4.10 or newer.
Minor fixes.

Universal Binary; runs natively on Intel-based Macs.
Fixed a long-standing bug that could cause some menu items to become permanently disabled until you quit and restart MacSOUP.
Several minor bug fixes.

Deleting or purging articles from very large groups is now possible. This used to be so slow that MacSOUP appeared to hang.
A new "Alternative Font" feature that lets you switch to a different font for the current message only. Useful for switching to a monospaced font for messages that contain tables or ASCII art.
Several bug fixes and minor user interface enhancements.

Fixed bugs in the address book and in the Services menu support. No new features.

Supports SMTP authentication.
Uses the system-wide address book on Mac OS X 10.2 and later.
Address auto-completion in the To, Cc, and Bcc fields in outgoing messages.
A filter field at the top of the subject window that allows you to narrow down the list to only those articles whose author or subject contains a certain substring.
Ability to filter mail by arbitrary headers, not just the couple of predefined ones. Useful to filter mail by headers like "X-Spam-Classification:" which are added by spam filters such as POPFile or SpamBayes.
Support for the Services menu on Mac OS X.
Several bug fixes and performance improvements. In particular, searching (non-regexp) has become much faster.

Runs natively on Mac OS X (10.1.3 or later).
Support for multiple email accounts and multiple personalities.
Threading for email.
Support for character encodings other than ISO-Latin-1; particularly ISO-8859-15 and UTF-8. (MacSOUP still assumes a western encoding internally, so it can't be used for languages such as Japanese or Polish; however, it handles the Euro symbol properly at last.)
A filter text field in the full group list that constrains the display to those groups that contain the given sub-string.
A "Post Article" command that opens a new news article to the currently open group, or to the groups that are selected in the main window.
Lots of minor improvements and bug fixes.

Oh come on. Who is still interested in such an old version?

Stefan Haller • Berlin, Germany •