How to download the Tier 2 APRS servers port list into UI-View

Make sure that no other Setup window in UI-View is open, especially not Setup/APRS Server Setup
If your PC has a firewall or sits behind a proxy server, please read this post by Dave, G0WBX
Make sure that the file Uiview32.ini is not write protected
Go to the main screen, File, Download APRS Server List
You will most likely see this window:

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Paste the following text behind the http://
france.aprs2.net/APRServe2.txt

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Click 'Download'.

The file contains comment lines. UI-View recognizes this and will ask you if you want to see them. Please look at them and answer with 'yes'. Your default text editor (notepad) will open a window for you to read the text. After reading you can close the text editor without further action.

The server list will then be available in UI-View and you can select your server and the desired port in Setup/APRS Server Setup.

If you then decide to connect to a user-definable filter port (14580), you can read here how to put the filter message and here a description of the filter functions.

A backup of the updated server list can be found on: http://www.aprs2.net/APRServe2.txt

The best practise is to pick one of the regional servers for your region. They provide automatic redundancy in cas of server failures.