Download The Bat! 5.2.2

Ritlabs has released an update to version 5.2 of its email client 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.

New features

• Highlighting of the iecm:// protocol in URLs

Improvements

• Cosmetic fixes at The Bat! Preferences (HTML Viewer)
• The recipient’s photo is displayed (if available) for messages in the “Outbox” and “Sent” folders

Fixes

• The Internal HTML viewer could not correctly display messages in the Japanese character set
• Some IMAP servers (gg Zimbra) cannot handle the ID command sent simultaneously with Login
• The Edition Type (Home/Professional) wasn’t displayed in the about box
• Fixes for the Mail Dispatcher list/header view size and the list font
• When a sub-set of folders was restored from the backup file while they had been missing in that account, those folders were created under the account’s Inbox folder
• Not all Google contacts were imported into The Bat!’s address book
• The changes to Character Sets (XLAT) were not saved (“Options -> Preferences -> Other options”)
• The changes to the character set “Translation FROM Windows” could not be saved (Options -> Preferences -> Other options -> Character Sets (XLAT))
• When an HTML message was loaded for editing, the viewer options were used
• Inline images for the HTML formatted messages were not displayed if system’s HTML viewer had been used
• The “Error reading xtSigners.Options: Invalid property value” issue when verifying S/MIME messages has been fixed

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