The database format has changed in this version. You can reuse your existing database if you follow the steps below, but you may want to make a backup copy first, because once the database has been converted to the new format, it can't be used by the old version any more.
1. If you have any unsent outgoing messages, make a reply packet now. Otherwise they will be lost.
2. Quit MacSOUP. In the Finder, open your "MacSOUP Database" folder. If it is still in the default location in the System Folder, you may want to drag it to a more convenient location first.
3. Rename the "Mail" folder to "Incoming Mail" and the "News" folder to "Incoming News". Delete the "Replies" folder.
4. Start the new MacSOUP version and tell it to create a new settings file in the "MacSOUP Database" folder. MacSOUP will automatically convert the files to the new format.
5. You must re-enter your Preferences; the old ones will not be reused. Also, MacSOUP now relies on Internet Config for all the Internet-related settings such as your email address and signature.
6. The format of the mail filters has changed considerably. If you have created any mail filters with the old version, check your Mailbox Settings to verify that they still look ok in the new format.
7. Optional: make an alias of the newly created settings file, name it "MacSOUP Settings", and put it in the same folder as MacSOUP. This way it will be automatically opened whenever you double-click MacSOUP.
Changes from pre-2.0 versions
MacSOUP 2.0 has been totally rewritten from scratch. It should be much more robust in low-memory situations. The internal data structures have been changed so that they take up more RAM, but are faster to load from disk. Operations such as opening a large newsgroup or marking many articles as read are now almost instantaneous. Unbatching packets may have become slightly slower, but you can immediately start reading while MacSOUP is importing stuff.
Here's a (probably incomplete) list of new features:
- support for Macintosh Drag and Drop
- Undo
- Kill File
- more powerful mail filters (important for mailing lists)
- a Find command
- Internet Config support (command-click a URL to fire up Netscape or Anarchie)
- commands to suspend and reschedule outbound messages
- nicer display of message headers
- in outbound messages you can seperate email addresses or newsgroups either by commas or by carriage returns (the latter is more readable)
- better handling of crossposted articles (you can now run uqwk with the +x option to reduce packet sizes)
- can use Eudora as a helper for email replies to news articles, if you don't like MacSOUP's built-in mailer
