Download The Bat! 5.2.0

Ritlabs has version 5.2 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. The release notes for this release can be found below.

The Bat! 5.2 – update

In this version we’ve added some new features, fixed some bugs that appeared in v5.1 and improved several existing program mechanisms.

It is now possible to quick-search folders in the folder selection dialogue – this will help users that have lots of folders. In the same dialogue you can now access tabs with folder sets. This version introduces folder re-filtering profiles – you can save certain rule sets and settings into profiles and assign hotkeys for calling them.

Sorting Office filter that adds/deletes addresses to/from address book can now extract target addresses from message body, not only from its headers. New filter action, “Clear All Tags”, is available; by using it, you can automatically clear every single tag that was previously added to a message. System folders (Inbox, Outbox, Trash, etc.) can have their own settings, just like ordinary folders. Message list columns became easier to handle – double clicking on a separator expands column to fit its contents.

Complete list of improvements and fixes can be found here.

The Bat! 5.1 screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.