The Bat! is a powerful email client for home and office use. It integrates a great number of features that will ease your work and save precious time. The program is highly customizable and able to satisfy all your needs when it comes to e-mail management. The Bat! integrates all the features of a standard e-mail client. In addition, it comes with many built-in automated characteristics for e-mail management.
Using The Bat! you can easily handle a great numbers of messages. You can sort and store the e-mails in specific folders. In addition to the default folders (Inbox, Outbox, Sent and Trash), you are allowed to create as many other folders as you want, generating your own directory hierarchy. The Bat! offers the possibility to automatically store e-mails in specific folders using the filters feature. The Folder Maintenance Center keeps the folders in a good state by performing actions like integrity checking, duplicates removing, purging old messages, compressing folders and many others.
Another important thing about The Bat! is that it supports multiple e-mail accounts. For each account you are allowed to change the properties, templates, folders, filters and many more. Using the Sorting Office from the Accounts menu you will be able to easily switch accounts within a single dialog box. Other built-in tools of The Bat! are the scheduler, the quick search, the mail chat, the SmartBat and many others that will extend the capabilities of the program.
When it comes to security and protecting your privacy, The Bat! integrates features that protect users from malicious e-mail content. Using a plug-in interface you can install third-party anti-virus tools that will keep your inbox virus-free. The application also incorporates the the BayesIT plug-in that will efficiently detect and remove spam e-mails.
The Bat! stands as a great alternative to other popular e-mail clients with its large number of customizable features.
v5.8 [Sep 24, 2013]
Features
- The option of locking The Bat!'s interface toolbars has been implemented.
Improvements
- The /LOG_PGP_COMMAND_LINE command line parameter has been implemented
- The default mail server settings for t-online.de wanadoo.fr, mail.ru, list.ru, bk.ru, inbox.ru have been added
- Warning when parked messages are moved is back.
- German user interface translation update.
Fixes
- The issue related to the processing of the print command invoked via the key combination Ctrl P in The Bat!'s internal Image Viewer has been fixed.
- The Invert case feature now works properly in all The Bat!'s editors for all the regional languages of the operating system.
- The reply counter in the German language "AW:" now works as the reply counter in the English language "Re:".
- The issue related to pressing AltGr in the mail editor for Hungarian and German keyboard layouts has been fixed.
- The search function in Cookies has been fixed.
- The negative counters issue in IMAP accounts, caused by the access of more than one client, has been fixed.
- Outlook Express contacts could not be imported.
- Creating messages using HTML-templates with images could lead to the loss of the last angle bracket.
- Program errors regarding the Quick Reply panel have been fixed.
