• Now supports news authentication. If your news server requires authentication, enter your news username and password in Internet Config. Most news servers don’t require authentication, so normally you should leave these fields empty.
• Now works with (misconfigured) news servers that require “MODE READER” to be sent as the first NNTP command.
• A “Mark as Read” command. I don’t know what it’s good for, but a lot of people have asked for it.
• A “Purge Old Articles” command (will purge articles from all newsgroups, according to each group’s settings), and an option to disable automatic purging (under Settings/Miscellaneous).
• On certain system configurations MacSOUP would crash while connecting to the server (mostly when closing the connection). Fixed.
• In certain circumstances MacSOUP would crash when attempting to display a news article that is cross-posted to more than five groups. Fixed.
• In some cases MacSOUP would sent an incorrect password to the POP server. In particular, this affected all passwords that start with a lowercase “v” (and a couple others). Fixed.
• When changing the name of a mailbox, the sub-menu of the “Move Message to” command didn’t immediately reflect the change. Fixed.
• When choosing “Followup” for a news article that has been copied to a mailbox, MacSOUP would report an internal error. Pressing “F” wouldn’t do anything at all. Fixed.
• If you use a utility such as Aurora to change the background color of all windows (system-wide), MacSOUP wouldn’t respect this and always paint its windows white instead. Fixed.
• For newsgroups that are configured to fetch only headers, MacSOUP now fetches new headers first, and then it downloads marked headers. This means that headers that are automatically selected by a kill file entry are immediately downloaded in the same session (but only if “Fetch marked headers” is checked).
• If a marked header can’t be downloaded because the article has already expired on the server, or it has been canceled meanwhile, MacSOUP now deselects the header. In previous versions it would stay selected, causing MacSOUP to try to download it again and again until you manually deselected it.
• Added a warning when you attempt to send an empty message, or a message that consists only of quoted text.
