The Bat is an e-mail application that supports multiple POP3 accounts, true multithreading, MIME and UUencode standards, multimedia, message templates, minimization to the system tray, message notification, APOP authorization, and PGP. You also will find a fast and comfortable message editor with text highlighting, as well as a mail dispatcher for managing messages on servers. English, Russian, German, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Italian, Lithuanian, and Romanian interfaces are built in, as is a multilingual spelling checker. The application's other features include
automatic dial-up networking (configurable for multiple accounts) and the option to include a
photo with each address-
book entry. There also are enhancements, such as message coloring, flagging, advanced filtering, speed improvements, and virus protection.
*** Features:
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Handling large volumes of e-mail
- Anti-spam Protection
- Efficient Antivirus Protection
- Unique MailTicker(TM)
- Comprehensive Scheduler
- Smart Sorting Office
- Handy Message Templates
- Quick Templates
- Microsoft Exchange Connectivity
- Message Parking
- Built-In Backup and Restore
- Mail Synchronisation
- Extended Support of National Codepages
- Convenient Message Dispatcher
- Fast Address Book
- Multilanguage Interface
- Submission Forms
- Strong Cryptography
- Powerful Import Wizard
- Supports Windows Vista.
*** Fast, Built-in Image Viewer
The Bat! has built-in image viewer supporting GIF, PNG, BMP, ICO, WMF, EMF and JPEG formats. You don't have to wait until an external image viewer gets loaded.
Changes in The Bat - 4.0.:
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New Folder Tabs Interface
Folder Tabs interface is completely reworked in
order to provide a new way to
access various groups of folders and messages.
The new Folder Favorite sets allow keeping some specific folders and addresses together in a single list.
Address History tab in the Folder Tabs to keep track of people one is exchanging messages with.
Address History
You may setup the Address History to keep track of people you are
messaging with. This way, you may quickly find messages from a particular person, know when you or she/he wrote you last time, etc. The setup wizard collects initial information from your existing message base, so you can
start using the Address History right away. When you enable the Address History, you may access the list of recorded correspondents at the "Addresses" tab of the folder pane in the main program's window.
Modern Look
The main windows of the program have modern look:
• The tabs has new navigation controls;
• Headers and free space in windows have nice gradient background;
• Buttons in the header filed also look much nicer because they also support gradients;
• Removed unnecessary borders around graphic components, that helps to avoids visual clutter;
• The account section of the status bar has it's own customizable popup menu. The status bar has also an option to show the account log or have it hidden.
URL Manager for Retrieval of HTML Images in The Background
The Bat! now shows images in HTML messages referenced by http protocol. Noting the fact that this opportunity has been abused by data “phishers”, The Bat! Introduces sophisticated URL Manager to control the retrieval of messages not by folder or addressee, but by particular hosts or URLs.
Upgraded Text Editor
The MicroEd text editor is improved. Now it supports Unicode and all the available system fonts. You have the possibility to use different fonts for different elements of the message and benefit of the system-wide drag-and-drop option. We also added the Redo function and spell checking for multiple languages at once. Text search is equipped with new options. Message signature is highlighted.
Easier Support and Maintenance
The Bat! now sets %EMAIL% environment variable to its mail directory (where mail accounts and address books are kept on disk). You can now type %EMAIL% in the address location of Windows Explorer to quickly to The Bat! mail directory. This significantly simplifies technical support: the user is easily able to locate the mail directory right from Windows Explorer, regardless whether this directory in “Program Files” or “User’s data” folder, even if the user doesn’t exactly know where the mail directory actually is.
Capitalization of the Addressees’ Name
The first character is of the addressee’s name is automatically capitalized if the recipient is specified by e-mail only. For example, if you specify only "stefan@ritlabs.com" in the "To:" line of a new message, it will now put "Hello Stefan," in the message text, and not "Hello stefan," as before. This is because of the new algorithm of %TOFName and related macros.
Advanced Image Viewer
The internal image viewer allows viewing all attached images in selected messages, navigating between images. It supports rotate, advanced resize and zoom algorithms and full screen mode. It now also supports JPEG images with 4-component color schemes (CMYK and YCCK). Such JPEG files can also displayed as embedded images of HTML messages.
Improved Speed
Message list sorting by "From", "To" or "Subject" column is now five times faster. The Bat! should also consume less memory because of fixed memory leaks.
Support of TNEF Format
Some attachments in a message forwarded from Outlook were neither visible nor accessible from The Bat!, because Outlook uses its own (TNEF) format for encapsulating attachments. These messages did contain winmail.dat or message.att file rather than the actually attached files.
The Bat! currently support extraction of regular files. TNEF can also include nested binary (Outlook IMessage) messages, Outlook meeting requests, Outlook delivery reports, and so on. Such binary Outlook objects are not yet extracted.
Smart Security Buttons
The buttons that appear in the header panel when you see a PGP or S/MIME message now display multiple properties of a message. For example, when a message is signed and encrypted, you will see a single button that combine both “signature” and “encryption” images.
The menu of this button works smarter: it shows the whole list of security actions available on this message (e.g. decrypt, show signature details, import certificate, etc). The most important action is marked by the bold font style. If you click the left mouse key on this security button, this important action is executed. If the message has more than one important action, the left mouse key then invokes the pop-up menu to give the user choice: which of the important actions to perform.
The Bat! 4.2.12.2 RELEASE
[+] You may now call menu navigator from menus
[*] The Bat! Got "Compatible with Windows 7" logo
[-] When inserting a block from file in MicroEd, the editor window went to background, and the main The Bat! window was activated
[-] In SMTP, the EHLO argument could contain local computer's name rather than fully-qualified domain name retrieved from DNS.
[-] When a user ran thebat.exe under Windows Vista (or later) without previously installing the MSI (i.e. no special registry entries were set), The Bat! did ask for file associations, but couldn't set it. Now it shows an "OK" button with a shield to indicate that it requires UAC elevation to write all the necessary registry entries (to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE).
[*] New command line parameters /ASSOCIATE_DefMailClient /ASSOCIATE_EML /ASSOCIATE_MSG /ASSOCIATE_VCF /ASSOCIATE_MAILTO. When one of the following parameters are passed, The Bat! does the necessary associations and immediately exists. It also returns an exit code (errorlevel) 0 in case of success and 1 in case of error.
[-] Added a debug parameter /LOGIPRESOLVER
[*] More logging when a filtering error occurs.
[-] (#0007696): problems reading certain html messages with latest betas
[-] Some windows to input a single line had untranslatable OK and Cancel Buttons
[-] A colour selection combo-box had a "Custom..." item untranslatable
[-] TBVARS URL Handler, that was used to modify The Bat! settings via external URLs was not associated to Registry.
[-] Fixed a bug of restoring a backup files from command line
[-] Simple MAPI handler couldn't handle the ReadMail command
[*] Viewer/Editor Profile Layout and SmartBat Preferences rearranged to fit loooong captions, font and color names
[-] The "/OP" command line parameter gave an AV.
[-] Fixed a problem with Copy&Paste of the last line of an HTML page
[-] Fixed a problem with anti-virus software when passing data between the DLL and thebat.exe when using SIMPLE MAPI.
[-] Changed "Unselect" to "Deselect" throughout the program
[*] thebat.exe is now plain exe file without an executable compressor
[*] Viewer/Editor Profile Layout and SmartBat Preferences - FontFace fixed on buttons instead of icons for them :(
[+] Added support for Japanese interface language
[-] The Preferences dialog was not centered, did not fit 800x600 or similar resolution, and didn't remember its position.
[-] The Message Dispatcher window was not screen-centered
[-] The Quick Template window was not screen-centered
[-] Card file lists weren't backuped
[-] The Bat! uninstaller didn't delete message base files and some files of the common settings
[-] In S/MIME internal implementation, if The Bat! user did generate a new certificate and have used another certificate to sign it, and the two certificates had different algorithms, the generation didn't work properly.
[-] When generating a certificate in S/MIME internal implementation, the "unused bits" in KeyUsage was incorrectly set
[*] (#0006256) Message Finder: It was not possible to delete a simple condition block
[-] Spell checking didn't work in previous alpha (BETA ISSUE)
[-] Fixed an AV when restoring a TBK file during a first start (when no accounts were yet created) and the backup did contain scheduled events
[+] Web-like search is now available in Message Finder
[-] Drag-and-drop of messages with "foreign" characters in subjects into disk folders could fail
[-] (#0007686) Background in HTML message is not saved and is not sent
[-] (#0007754) Image resizing in the HTML-editor is not saved.
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