• Outgoing mail messages that contain non-ASCII characters are now sent as quoted-printable. So the option “Warn about 8-bit characters in outgoing mail” in the Preferences dialog probably doesn’t make much sense any more; most people will want to turn it off, unless you frequently send mail to someone whose mailer can’t decode quoted-printable (most can, nowadays).
• When replying to a message, the standard signature delimiter (“-- ”) is recognized, and the signature is not included in the quoted text. It is strongly recommended that you turn on the “Standard Signature Delimiter” option in the Signature page of the Preferences dialog, so that other programs can recognize your signature too.
Bug fixes:
• On certain Macs, MacSOUP sometimes crashed if you created a reply packet while a newsgroup or mailbox was open. Fixed.
• MacSOUP sometimes crashed when closing the subject window. Fixed.
• On certain machines or certain system configurations, MacSOUP used to crash big time as soon as you tried to do anything — pull down menus, open windows, whatever. I still don’t know why these crashes happened, but the changes I made to fix the first two bugs above seem to have fixed this one too.
• MacSOUP reliably crashed when scrolling through very long messages (a couple thousand lines). Fixed.
• When switching from terse headers to full headers and back, the scrollbar of the message window didn’t update, and the message text sometimes didn’t redraw correctly. Fixed.
• When selecting text with shift-arrow keys, the selection was extended in both directions. Now one endpoint of the selection is fixed, and the other can be moved back and forth.
For those who missed the d6 version, here are the changes from d5 again.
Changes since version 1.0d5
Enhancements:
• rudimentary support for MIME quoted-printable encoded messages. Incoming mail messages and news articles with a "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable" header are recognized and displayed correctly. However, the charset information is still ignored, MacSOUP always assumes ISO-Latin-1 (which is almost always the correct guess though). Parts of a "multipart/mixed" content-type that are QP-encoded are not recognized by this version. And outgoing messages can't be sent as quoted-printable yet. Didn't I say "rudimentary?" So there. :-)
(Full MIME support is planned for some future version. That's a looong way to go, so don't expect it any time soon.)
• one thing that was already changed in the last version, but which I forgot to mention: the "live" window dragging feature is gone (several people objected to it). If you want it back, install the "DragWindow II" system extension.
Bug fixes:
• the 1.0d5 version had a major bug that caused it to crash on Macs without Color QuickDraw. Fixed.
• several other minor bugs fixed (most of them only cosmetic)