Download The Bat! 5.0.8

Ritlabs has released version 5 of its email program The Bat! released The program supports several pop3 and imap4 accounts and has a Bayesian spam filter and extensive search and filtering capabilities. The Bat is available in the flavors Home and Professional Edition, where students and non-profit organizations receive a discount on the purchase price. As usual, home users should also International Pack Updating. The difference between the Pro and Home editions is shown on this page Out of the blankets.

In version 5.0, the imap part has been improved, among other things, which should make the program more stable and more secure. In addition, the support for plug-ins has been improved and expanded, the program is able to generate and send QR codes, there is a new URL manager and The Bat! now using the aes instruction set in the intel core processors to accelerate tls and s/mime.

New:

• New image download manager
• Added a visual indicator for loading message lists of IMAP folders
• Color groups can be assigned to IMAP messages
• Improved certificate chain building for X.509 in S/MIME and TLS
• IMAP. Partial message loading
• IMAP. Loading of remotely stored attachments
• “Resend to” action added to support both local and remote attachments
• Excel compatibility option added when exporting contacts in CSV format
• Graceful server disconnect for IMAP
• An account option to not use filters on IMAP in the “IMAP fine-tune” section
• It’s now possible to search for RegExp and other The Bat!-specific criterias in IMAP folders and in offline-mode (in cached messages only)
• IMAP connection is now monitored mostly like in versions prior to 5
• It’s now possible to define color and text style for Quick Search tabs
• Information about selected/total and filtered messages is now displayed on status bar in the main window and message viewer
• It’s now possible to print from SmartBat
• Better decoding/encoding of some badly-encoded national characters, The Bat! now uses smarter recovery algorithms

Improvements:

• Better display of unknown attributes or X.509 certificates
• Remove thread start/finish debug messages from the “ex_log.txt” file
• Getting folder contents was reorganized
• IMAP folder can be specified (and created if needed) as destination of filter
• Folder download options was reorganized
• Pop-up menus of IMAP accounts/folders was reorganized
• Cosmetic changes in IMAP download tab
• IMAP related account and folder properties was reorganized
• Redesigned IMAP folder manager
• Plugin API. Refined handling of before/after filter events
• %AttachOriginalFiles macros is now supported in all auto-generated messages (not only forward)
• IMAP message bases are now stored in a separate “IMAP” folders to prevent troubles when the user switches back and forth between versions 4 and 5 of The Bat!