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.
v6.6 [Aug 28, 2014]
The Bat! 6.6
New features
An option to save selected attachments into a specified folder without confirming each file has been implemented
It is now possible to specify macros in backup archive comments
The following character sets are now supported: EUC-JIS-2004, SHIFT_JIS-2004, ISO-2022-JP-2004, BIG5-2003
Added support for ORFO 2014
Extra code pages have been enabled: cp856, cp922, cp943, cp1046, cp1124, cp1129, cp1161, cp1162, cp1163, dec_kanji, dec_hanyu, cp437, cp737, cp775, cp852, cp853, cp855, cp857, cp858, cp860, cp861, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp869, cp1125, euc_jisx0213, shift_jisx0213, iso2022_jp3, big5_2003, tds565, atarist and riscos1
RSS version 0.91, 0.92 and 1.0 are now supported as well
Improvements
Lists of the seen POP messages (from ACCOUNT.M_R and ACCOUNT.M_D) are now updated at the start of each POP session
The Account information tab can be closed now. Should you need the account information in future, you will be able to reactivate this tab in the global preferences
Indication of IMAP folder listing completion in the IMAP Folder Manager to avoid confusion
Extended mouse buttons are now working not only in message lists, but in all message list windows
Web-help is now used if invoked under the Russian program interface language
Memory usage optimization for sending large messages
Multi-tag description in RSS feeds is now supported
The layout of message list context menu was changed to make functions that are frequently used more accessible
(#0297) An error regarding messages containing several text/plain inline parts and displaying them as having a single text part has been fixed
New threading modes: by Sender Name, Sender Address, Recipient Name and Recipient Address
The attachments pane menu was reworked: the option "Select All" was added; the option “Save to a folder” is visible when multiple attachments are selected
/STARTUP_TIMING_LOG now displays which tasks in backup consume most time
Fixes
(#0008) Postponed messages are no longer sent many times after re-editing
(#0142) The Reply-To field is not filled any more, if it is empty upon editing a stored message as new
(#0479) HTML Images from files with names with non-ASCII characters are now stored with correct names
Since version 6.0 The Bat! didn't work with external PGP 5,6,7,8,9,10, that issue has been eliminated
(#0483) Tag statistics are now correctly loaded when on-the-fly message base encryption is used
Split messages are automatically combined on IMAP
The Bat! handles errors in ISO-2022 (Japanese) encoding properly now
The /LOG_PGP_COMMAND_LINE command line parameter is now functional as it used to be in versions prior to 6.0
The Bat! does not pass recipients to GnuPG with curly braces any more
The "Compact folder after each message deletion" option is now once again functional in IMAP accounts
The "Book" button in the "Add to address book" helper dialogue properly works now
The Access Violation error message when moving messages from one IMAP account to another has been fixed
The Access Violation error message when moving messages from IMAP to local folders has been fixed
The issue with restoring folders with the "&" character in the name has been eliminated
A problem with importing of UTF in CSV has been fixed
In issue forcing the usage of Tahoma by default as the message header font rather than Segoe UI has been eliminated
(#0356) Problems with non-ASCII characters in file names in the "Watch and Send files" Scheduler action have been fixed
The issue causing "Unexpected exception EEncodingError" error message in the RSS reader has been fixed
(#0421) The problem forcing The Bat! to crash after closing with user-defined Message Tab has been eliminated
(#0512) Messages left on the POP3 server are now deleted when removed from The Bat!’s Trash folder if the "Delete message from server when it is removed from Trash" option is enabled
(#0233) The issue with color drop-downs ignoring localized names in different dialogs has been fixed
The Access Violation error, which appeared in the Inbox Analyzer while trying to check RSS account, has been fixed
Memory leaks caused by using the operating system’s web-browser as the HTML viewer have been eliminated
Data from LDIF files with international characters is now correctly imported
Contacts with international characters are now correctly exported into LDIF files
The issue preventing the imported groups to be immediately visible in the address book has been fixed
"Reply to All" from the Quick Reply pane does not use all addresses in the "To:" field anymore
