Download The Bat! 3.99.1

A few days ago, version 3.99.1 of The Bat! hatched. This email program offers support for multiple POP3 or IMAP4 accounts, has a Bayesian spam filter and extensive search and filter options. The Bat! is available in flavors Home and Professional Editionwhere students and non-profit organizations receive a discount on the purchase price to get. Home users, as usual, also need their International pack Updating. The difference between the Pro and Home editions becomes op this page explained in detail again. The changelog for this release shows the following changes:

Added feature:

• Animated smiles in smile panel.
• A new command-line parameter /REFILTER to re-filter the specified folder. Eg thebat.exe.
• Backup archives larger than 2G bytes are now properly handled: /refilter;U=accountname;F=foldername.

Improved/changed features:

• Submission Forms’ variables and user lists are enabled now.
• Changed File Description of thebat.exe from “The Bat! E-Mail Client. Works with Windows Vista” to “The Bat! E-Mail Client by Ritlabs”.
• When creating a new message from a filter, the options “Sign when Completed”, “Encrypt when Completed”, “Use PGP”, “Use S/MIME” are taken from the account properties, so you don’t need to explicitly set these options via %SIGNCOMPLETE, %USEGPG (etc) macros. However, if you don’t want a new message from a filter to be signed or encrypted, you should use the macros %NOSIGNCOMPLETE, %NOENCRYPTCOMPLETE.
• IMAP counter changes.
• Folders are created automatically when restored from a backup archive without restoration of account properties.
• Significantly improved speed of working with attachments.
• Better and faster way to shutdown when some tasks are in progress.
• The “Later” button in the “OK to exit now?” dialogue.

Bug fixed (we hope):

• (#0006195) Now The Bat! allows opening any attachment, even if the mask of disabled files is empty.
• (#0006279) In new version a warning appears when user enters a space between extensions in Protection section (extension doesn’t work then).
• (#0006284) In 3.99, when replying to an HTML message with national characters encoded as Unicode, quotation is correctly extracted.
• Encoding bug in HTML fixed.
• Reading from broken “data container” does not cause memory overruns and AVs anymore.
• Bug in decoding Japanese HTML messages fixed.
• (#0006222) Now Robin HTML viewer displays Japanese characters correctly.
• There are no more additional spaces in HTML save/copy/paste.
• (#0006306) Closing unchanged new message editor does not require confirmation anymore.
• (#0006294) When replying to HTML message, text in table can now be selected with double-click
• (#0006310) Program is not checking updates anymore if this feature is disabled in Preferences.
• In the token activation dialog, there are no more untranslated strings “Registration Key Block:” and “Order number” (Voyager Issue).
• (#0006287) Account with user rights: Sections in Preferences dialog are not switched over.
• (#0006288) Account with user rights: Sorting Office is correctly enabled now.
• (#0006289) Account with user rights: Menu item “Network and Administration” is enabled now.
• (#0006290) Account with user rights: Folder management is disabled if it’s set in “Network and Administration”.
• (#0006291) Account with user rights: Account transport section is disabled if it’s set in “Network and Administration”.
• (#0006302) No more squares in PGP validation dialog.
• Message counter in a folder is now updated when a new message is added to this folder by “Decrypt a message” filter.
• Now if a filter is unable to decrypt a message, it is possible to move the message (that could not have been decrypted) to a folder.
• If a filter has an action to decrypt a message an there is an S/MIME error like “failed to parse the PKCS#7 object”, the error is now displayed in the log file instead of being given to the screen in a modal dialog box.
• Account setting or message split size is not ignored when the new messages are created by Sorting Office/Filters.
• (#0002988) When restoring data from a backup archive, the certificates in the “Trusted Root” address book are now trusted from the start.
• In S/MIME certificates and certificate requests, the “middle name” field is now properly stored in the “initials” attribute rather than in “GenerationQualifier” attribute.
• Fixed some small handle leaks of “FindFirstFile” API calls.
• S/MIME signed and/or encrypted reading confirmation messages (in Sorting Office/Filters) are now supported.
• If you specify a character set in the submission form, it is now used to encode output data (filled by the user in the input fields).
• The option in the account properties to use non-encoded 8-bit characters in the message header now works properly.
• (#0006193) E-mail addresses from the Intermediate CA and Trusted Root CA address books are not being used by the auto-complete function now.
• (#0006293) Account with user rights: user with limited access rights cannot create/delete an account anymore.
• Regular expressions work properly in the filters.
• URLs work under Windows 98.
• Submission forms are now stored during backup.
• (#0006217) Double line spacing in plain text replies to HTML messages fixed.
• (#0005890) Reply to HTML using text format is much better now.
• (#0001842) Macro QUOTE now works for multipart/alternative message with UTF-8 part.
• (#0006321) Account order is now updated after renaming an account.
• Cosmetic fixes in account properties and SMTP/POP3 authentication windows.
• Cosmetic fixes in the Sorting Office/Filter properties: “decrypt message” action dialog does not wrap a checkbox under Windows Vista anymore.
• POP3/SMTP authentication passwords in the account properties are now XXE encoded in the configuration file.
• Finally fixed the problem of restoring certificates from backup.
• (#0006324) The Bat! does not change charset to UTF-8 when a simpler charset like Windows-1251 can be used.
• (#0006318) Command line parameter “/mail….;ATTACH=filename” works with masks now (*.ext etc).
• Attached files with Unicode characters are now supported both when keeping attachments in message bodies and in a separate directory.
• In 3.99, attachments are not deleted from the Attachment directory if they contain non-Latin characters.
• Submission forms list in the main window now gets updated if you add a submission from an attachment.
• Some IMAP filtering fixes.
• Encrypted backup archives with huge folders (about 1GB) now can be created or restored with no “out of memory” errors.
• Mail chat problem with national characters fixed.
• Memory leak when a new message was stored into a folder fixed.
• (#0006063) Uninformative error message at backup fixed.

[break]The following downloads are available:
The Bat! 3.99.1 Home Edition
The Bat! 3.99.1 Professional Edition[break]