Utility Functions:
Under the File menu, there is a Utilities submenu. Here is what the  Utilities submenu looks like in version 1.5.1.1:

 






Address Book Maintenance:

This option allows you to add or delete entries in your Address Book. The Address Book Maintenance dialog appears as follows:

 






















If you invoke it while you have a message displayed, MacWoof attempts to determine the 
NetMail address of the sender and automatically places that into the appropriate fields. To remove an entry, simply select it in the list and press the remove button.

Compacting/Repairing the Messages File:
As time goes on, your messages file tends to become larger and to become fragmented. Since it grows to accommodate the largest number of messages that you have at any one time, a couple of big packets coming in together can make your file quite huge. MacWoof will automatically reuse the space previously occupied by messages, but in the process, parts of messages get scattered throughout the file. This is similar to disk fragmentation. 

To eliminate this fragmentation and to reduce the size of your messages file back to the minimum possible size, go to the File menu and select the Compact Message File... option. This option can also be used should the messages file become corrupted. Signs of the file being corrupted include things such as messages saying “end of file” while trying to read messages, etc. The Compact... option will go through a corrupted message base and will recover as many messages as possible, copying them to a new file that is free from the corruption.

Scheduling Events:

MacWoof 1.5.1 adds to the scheduling feature introduced in 1.2.1. You can now not only have MacWoof call your Boss at a specified time but also have it switch message files which can then have their own  schedules to call another boss. This allows you to set up as a point off of several bosses and have MacWoof automatically poll for mail from all of them.

In addition, you can have MacWoof automatically shutdown or restart your Macintosh at a specified time. In this version, there is a caveat however! If you are using the shutdown or restart event capability make sure that you don't have any applications open with unsaved data as the current method will blindly restart or shutdown and you will lose anything that hasn't been saved. A subsequent version of MacWoof that supports AppleEvents will handle this more cleanly.

Likewise, in the current version the "Launch" option of the schedule menu is not active but will be activated in a future release.

Here is the basic Schedule Events Dialog:

 

















Each event can be scheduled to occur at a specified time and day or to occur each day. You establish the time for a new event and what activity by pressing the New button. When you press it, this dialog appears:

 

















Simply set the time of day that you want the event to occur and use the radio buttons on the left to specify which day it is to occur on or if you want it to occur every day. Note that if you want it to occur on more than one day but not every day you must create separate events for each day.

You select the type of event using the Type of Event: popup menu which looks like:

 







If you select the Load Message File item, a standard Mac "Get File" dialog comes up for you to select the message file to be loaded. Once a different message file has been loaded, MacWoof starts executing the schedule of events of contained in that file.

UnARCing Files:
Under some circumstances, MacWoof is unable to determine that a file it has received has been ARC’ed. So rather than make you go find a copy of MacARC or some similar utility, MacWoof has a manual unARC utility built in. Located in the Utilities submenu of the File menu, the UnARC a File… choice brings up a standard file dialog which you use to select the file to unARC.

Importing Messages without using a modem:
To import messages, either have your mailer unARC ARCMail leaving just .pkt files, or use the unARC File… item on the Utilities submenu, placing all the .pkt files in the same folder. Select Import Msgs… from the File menu and select any of the .pkt files. The program will process and delete all of the .pkt files in the selected folder.

Exporting Mail without using a modem:
To export messages for use with a separate mailer, select Export Msgs from the File menu. You will be shown a standard new file dialog box with a suggested filename based upon FidoNet conventions for .pkt files. MacWoof will automatically append new messages to an existing packet if you press the “Replace existing…” button when a packet file already exists. Generally, you must use the default name with MacWoof, but you can change the name if you are using a separate mailer. Change the 8 digit hexadecimal number if you need to but be sure that the new number is 8 digits long and that you still have a .pkt suffix.