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.
v10.4 [Jun 1, 2023]
The Bat! v10.4 (30 May 2023)
New features
Calendar Manager
Synchronization with Google Calendar
List of recently created/modified files and source folders in the drop-down of the "Attach a file" button in the message editor window
Improvements
/NoDirectX command line parameter to disable the usage of DirectX in PureHTML editor
Fixes
In certain cases, the new interface toolbars were not saved on exiting the program
The font size is now preserved when replying to an HTML-message
Pressing the Tab key in the message text area now works as expected
Replying to an email using the PureHTML format caused infinite Access Violation error messages
Wrong email addresses were inserted as additional emails in a contact's properties
It was impossible to delete secondary email address in a contact's properties
In was not possible to overwrite any email address in a contact's properties
The sorting of contacts in the new address book interface was wrong
Zoom in/out buttons in plain text switched the message format to PureHTML
"Zoom in" in the message editor did not enlarge the row height
The path for the Synchronize operation required a trailing backslash for the operation to start
Issues with Calculate command in HTML editors were fixed
Some iCalendar files could cause AV errors
Alt+Insert (Paste as quotation) was not working properly in both HTML editors
Weekly/daily repeating events were starting one day later
Time zone issues when importing from iCalendar files
Images copied from MS Word were not pasted properly in HTML editors
Automatic replies were losing the original HTML formatting
It was impossible to deselect text in the PureHTML editor
The issue which caused the Access Violation and "A component named FolderEditor already exists" error messages on opening folder properties has been resolved
Missing indication on the current message format - plain text or HTML
"Paste as plain text" doesn't work both in RichText and in PureHTML
"Invalid image. Error" upon replying to messages with certain image files
RichText includes the background color in HTML-messages depending on the interface theme
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