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.
v7.1 [Dec 15, 2015]
New features
OAuth 2.0 authentication mechanism for GMail and Mail.Ru
The "Use Address Book display names" option for message list
"From (Address Book)" and "To (Address Book)" message list columns are now available
EWS autodiscover logging in the "Create New Account" dialog
Priority, receipt/reading confirmation options for sending messages from EWS accounts
EWS accounts: moving and copying messages/items between folders is now possible
Server-side deletion of messages/items in EWS accounts
"Load Active Directory contacts" option in the EWS accounts properties
While retrieving Exchange items via EWS, the company Active Directory contacts are now also retrieved
"Get only items later than:" option in EWS accounts
Improvements
When HTTP proxy is defined in The Bat! under "Network\Administration", it overrides operating system’s Internet options
Sound after finishing search is made optional
Files’ creation time is used as the received time for messages opened from .EML files
Fixes
Search is now working in Virtual Folders
The "Create New Account" dialog was missing EWS pre-configured settings for some well-known email services
Registration keys from some HTML messages couldn't be copy-pasted into the key input form, if The Bat! used Windows OS HTML viewer
The Bat! didn't properly handle Unicode text files and could only load text files in Windows or UTF-8 encoding, not UTF-16. As a result, tips files in UTF-16 could not be displayed
RSS error unexpected exception EXMLDocError, Details: "Element "content" does not contain a single text node" has been eliminated
Access violation error upon saving HTML-templates with changes of test formatting in tables has been fixed
Access violation error, which appeared while copying emails with inline images and Content ID between different accounts has been fixed
If the user entered a registration key from a previous version, The Bat! did not properly display the program’s version number
Fixes in displaying of RSS subject lines for those aggregators that treat titles as HTML and second level of encoding may be expected to comply with HTML
Memory leaks have been eliminated
Reply-To and In-Reply-To fields in EWS accounts are now properly displayed
Access violation error message that appeared while downloading external images for HTML emails has been fixed
Program’s interface could get frozen while retrieving a large number of messages (1000>) with broadband access
The Bat! didn't import the gender field from tab delimited files to the address book
Access violation error messages, which appeared in the account log, have been fixed
Search within the found messages in the Message Finder was not working
The warning upon opening of more than 5 messages in a separate window at once is functioning again
Problems with extended IMAP authentication mechanisms (like CRAM-MD5, NTLM, etc) have been fixed
The "D-TRUST Root Class 3 CA 2 EV 2009" certificate has been added
Access violation error that appeared when searching contacts on LDAP servers has been fixed
Fixes in displaying folder names in the folder selection for Mail Ticker
(#0000635) Truncated checkbox "Action" and option "Load signal string..." in the Sorting Office | Selective download section
(#0000596) Truncated checkbox "With attachments" in the Setup Message List Tab dialog
(#0000543) Truncated captions in folder maintenance results pane
(#0000637) Short strings in the Connection Center window
Fixed some caption truncation by width and height
Access violation error that occurred while processing large accounts with Inbox Analyzer has been fixed
