Download The Bat! 9.3

The more than twenty-year-old email client The Bat! of the Moldovan company Ritlabs is slowly gaining ground. The new director, Stefan Tanurkov, who had previously been eliminated in a power struggle with his old partner Maxim Masiutin, is fully committed to modernizing his brainchild.

In the latest versions, Chromium’s HTML rendering engine replaces the outdated internal and Internet Explorer engines. The most striking new feature in the latest version is the dark mode. The program has also undergone minor interface changes and really looks much fresher than before. The changelog for this release looks like this:

New features

• Interface Themes

Improvements

• Smoother loading of HTML messages
• Message preview: redesigned search panel inside the preview pane
• Re-filter window can now be resized and sent to background
• HTML editor stores the selected theme style only if the editor’s option “Include current profile’s layout into HTML messages” is on

Fixes

• Toolbar/menu settings were not stored/restored completely
• Error when the user tried to create a new address book
• Large and zero-length body HTML messages could be rendered using previously viewed HTML contents
• Lots of cosmetic fixes for setting defaults and first-time run
• Default icon for utility windows was not set to the app’s main icon
• Message import from Mozilla Thunderbird was not working
• Fixes for color and font saving in HTML messages
• Changes to Color Groups made in a dark theme were not saved
• Preview pane changes color properly when interface theme is changed
• Information panel didn’t change color when theme was changed (when the actual info panel was closed)