Download The Bat! 10.4

Version 10.4 of the more than twenty year old email client The Bat! it came out. The new director of the Moldovan company Ritlabs, Stefan Tanurkov, is fully committed to modernizing his program. For example, Chromium’s HTML rendering engine has replaced the outdated internal engine and that of Internet Explorer and there is now also a dark mode. The program has also undergone several changes to the interface and really looks much fresher than before. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

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