The Bat is an e-mail application that supports multiple POP3 accounts, true multithreading, MIME and UUencode standards, multimedia, message templates, minimization to the system tray, message notification, APOP authorization, and PGP. You also will find a fast and comfortable message editor with text highlighting, as well as a mail dispatcher for managing messages on servers. English, Russian, German, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Italian, Lithuanian, and Romanian interfaces are built in, as is a multilingual spelling checker. The application's other features include automatic dial-up networking (configurable for multiple accounts) and the option to include a photo with each address-book entry. There also are enhancements, such as message coloring, flagging, advanced filtering, speed improvements, and virus protection.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New version!

12/22/2008
On the threshold of the winter holidays RITLabs announces the launch of the new version of The Bat! software. The Bat! 4.1 has a series of new useful features and improvements of the functions that are already familiar.

The most important enhancement in The Bat! 4.1 is the HTML templates creation option. In the new version creating HTML messages is much easier – in addition to plain text, The Bat! templates can handle the full range of formatting, pictures, background images, tables and other HTML message attributes.

Many business users need to adhere to their corporate style in every message. The new capability makes this extremely easy. The HTML templates allow you to save the graphic elements of your message as a template. All you have to do is write your text in the appropriate place. The same applies to sending accounting and other spreadsheet data. A template with a document headline, a table and a signature is all you need to generate a smart-looking spreadsheet. The table itself can be imported from an external application. These are just a few of the ways that HTML templates can come in handy.

Unicode encoding was first introduced in version 4.0 of The Bat! but was restricted to the messages. With version 4.1, Unicode functionality is extended so that now your templates can contain symbols or any combination of alphabets. For example, users can create templates in English yet include German or Spanish alphabet characters if needed.

The Bat! file system has also been also improved. In the new version there is no limit to the size of the message folder. The threshold for the volume of messages in a folder is determined by the capacities of the hard disk file system. For FAT disks the maximum size of a folder is 2Gb, while NTFS disk users have no restrictions on message folder volume.

RITLabs has made the backup and restore process faster, more reliable, and more convenient. This is made possible by modifications to the backup file format. The new format considerably increases backup reliability. Furthermore, a new file processing algorithm significantly accelerates the backup and restore process.

The Bat! 4.1 allows users to backup or restore selected folders to/from the backup file. This helps ensure you only keep the most important information and do not waste time saving/restoring minor messages. Finally, backup files can be encrypted and password-protected with a safe RC2 algorithm (users are reminded that they will not be able to restore encrypted data without a password nor can they restore data backed up by The Bat! 4.1 with older versions).

In The Bat! 4.1 the proxy server mechanism was essentially improved. Besides, we added time stamp option for digital signatures. When working with the S/MIME protocol, users can create four kinds of certificate: signature only, encryption only, signature and encryption and Certifying Authority (CA) certificates. The Bat! 4.1 uses Windows address book to store TLS certificates.

* New message base index for support message base files larger than 2G bytes and possibility to have multiple user flags
* HTML and Unicode templates
* Address Import from Windows Mail (Vista)
* Proxy support with authentication
* (#0003978) The new option "Limit of simultaneous tasks in the Connection Centre"
* (#0006887) The Bat! now supports http proxy to download external images from html pages
* Keyboard layout indicator for the "change password" dialog.
* Backup/Restore: It's now possible to specify folders to restore
* In S/MIME internal implementation, the user is now able to generate four different types of certificate: for signing only, for encryption only, for both signing and encryption and for signing of certificates (CA). The user is also able to specify whether the new certificate will be self-signed (this does not apply to encryption-only certificates) or signed by a CA certificate that the user have previously generated.
* New command to delete all private keys on eToken Pro token
* Added an option "flat tabs" to the Preference window.
* Added 7 new certificates to the Trusted Root CA address book: COMODO Certification Authority; DigiCert Assured ID Root CA; DigiCert Global Root CA; DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA; Go Daddy Class 2 Certification Authority; Starfield Class 2; Certification Authority; VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5
* Added the Menu Navigator to "View" menu of the main window, address book, message editor and message finder
* Address book entries and groups now support Unicode templates (not HTML templates though)
* Added mailbox import format for Communigate
* New macros to convert absolute to relative path name and vice versa: COLLAPSEFILENAME and EXPANDFILENAME. They take the path name as an argument.
* New macro FOLDERDIR to return disk path of a folder
* (#0001727) New macros FolderMessagesUnread and FolderMessagesTotal. They will take an optional argument of the folder full name. Without an argument, will return data for the current folder.
* (#0007226) Built-in picture viewer was saving images in the BMP format (now original files are saved)
* Tab sets now always use "flat" style regardless the selection of current Windows theme.
* It is not possible to specify Unicode characters in password of the backup.
* Removed an obsolete option "high-colour icons" from the the Preference window.
* (#0006970) Justify on Autowrap is now back in the new MicroEd
* (#0004405) It is now possible to select the items to be restored from a backup archive when accounts are created at the first run
* undo/redo added into sorting office popup menu
* Alt+1,2,3 shortcuts for Zoom 50%, 100%, 200%
* Options -> "S/MIME" renamed to "S/MIME and TLS"
* In the address book window, the option "Certificate databases" is renamed to "Certificate Address Book"
* When CryptoAPI is selected, there is a new option in the address book: View/Windows Certificate Store, which opens a Windows Certificate Store window to let the user manage certificates.
* Message header preview in Mail Dispatcher now reflects the settings from the Viewer Preferences
* (#0004141) It is now possible to specify folders in automatic backup action
* strings and icons fixed to internal picture viewer in message/image preview frame
* Better interface for adding multiple senders/recipients to address book
* If you were sending an encrypted message from command line and the message had no recipients, the error was not displayed
* The TEMPLATE= option of the /MAIL command line parameter now accepts UNICODE and UTF-8 text files
* Viewing attached textual parts now supports UTF-8 and UTF16-BE encodings.
* help icon added to main menu
* view source icon restored into viewframe
* Reply to a message from a common folder now tries to find suitable account using TO addresses
* New, DNS-based version update checking mechanism
* From now, message printing is using Viewer font and colour settings (with character set dependent viewer profiles)
* When installing The Bat! professional MSI and some files were in use, the dialog showing options had empty radio buttons.
* Closing of folder tabs via the "cross" button worked improperly.
* A user could not properly edit the name of a tab in the message list.
* The Bat! http protocol loader (that loads remote images in html pages) didn't support "round robin" and IPv6.
* (#0006866) SOCKS4 Proxy support in Options | Network And Administration | Proxy.
* (#0006403) Version checker didn't support proxy settings
* Fixed an AV when viewing digital signatures
* Fixed an error EPostMessageZeroHandle in dial-up connections.
* Fixed an error in dial-up connections
* Multi-user environment was broken
* The Bat! won't use SOCKS proxy for the following host names: localhost, 127.0.0.1, ::1
* Fixed an "access violation" error which could happen after deletion of a header from Preferences | Editor/Viewer/Message Headers.
* Message import options sometimes were grayed out without any clue to the user. In this case, the user didn't know the reason why the import was not possible, and didn't know how to proceed. In a new version, The Bat! will be smarter. If a user did select an account, but didn't select any folder, the import option will first select the Inbox folder of this account and will import to this folder. If the user did select an IMAP account or a virtual folder, The Bat! will give a message clarifying that importing to such account or folder is not supported.
* (#0007264) Access violation while exiting
* (#0006936) It wasn't possible to backup external attachments with foreign characters in their names
* (#0005806) Filtered messages were added to MailTicker with previous version of flags in some cases
* (#0007227) MailTicker viewer was filled with messages from the current message's folder if the latter was focused in the main window
* (#0005922) Copy command from the preview pane image viewer's context menu was not functional
* (#0007237) Windows were shifting up/left when taskbar on the screen top/left
* (#0007117) $ in RegExp search in Preview pane could hang the program
* (#0007280) Print did not work
* "Range error" on the opening of the Scheduler
* (#0007241) Connection Center: TheBat does not want to wait for message when I want terminate session
* 0006379: Violating the concept of non-persistent blocks to have caret outside of selection in Rich/text Viewer
* (#0006214) drop-down menu in auto-complete an email address closes when scrolling down
* (#0005458) Scrollbars in message editor headers do not work
* In The Bat! Voyager, the path to GnuPG Key Manager was not relative.
* (#0007251) Chars "~ / |" pasted when using Undo immediately after opening editor
* (#0001736) TLS did use certificates from The Bat! address books even when CryptoAPI was used. Now, when CryptoAPI is selected, The Bat! uses Windows Certificate store to verify server's certificate.
* (#0007247) Cosmetic : No Preview tab is selected, when is HTML/TEXT message opened
* Errors when a template was open in a separate editor
* Various "Smileys" issues
* (#0006404) *.txt attachments via Microsoft Exchange V6.5
* (#0006862) An error with exiting from image viewer's full screen mode using Esc
* When CryptoAPI was selected, the View -> "Certificate databases" option was still visible in the address book
* (#0006594) Colour Group tabs for new groups did not appear automatically in the Folder Tab list
* Some calls in the anti-spam API could cause "stack overflow" exception
* (#0007316) Sender-related information was not used in the Template Preview
* Address Book: Export to LDIF files/Copy to clipboard was losing character set of address book entries
* (#0007154) The dispatcher of messages does not remember position at expansion on the full screen
* (#0001499) The macro %ofromname should work fine with the fancy emails containing colons in the user's name
* (#0002287) Moving messages is leaving empty window on Task Bar
* (#0006761) The Bat! icon is shown twice in TaskSwitchXP
* Configuration files were saved twice on exit
* (#0006967) The Bat! didn't use userdic.tlx by default as a dictionary to add words to
* "Add to trusted" dialog in TLS connections was inconsistent when CryptoAPI was chosen.
* (#0006037) Many URLs were not clickable in the Message Source Viewer
* The Bat! was staring minimized to system tray when the option to show The Bat! on the taskbar was off.
* Address Book was losing photos while restoring from a backup archive
* NTLM authentication didn't work
* (#0007339) Window state is always Maximized when starting with /minimize and restoring from tray
* (#0007303) Size and position of Account properties dialog is not saved
* (#0006329) Message list tabs were not restored from backup
* Message list tabs captions didn't change on when the language of The Bat! interface was changed.
* (#0002495) Inconsistency when navigating between tabs using a keyboard
* (#0001104) Account is not selected, if the user logs as a different The Bat! account
* (#0003362) The password of an account-group cannot be removed
* (#0005874) Tabs could be too narrow, e.g. the "All" tab in the folder tree and the message list.
* (#0007266) Inconsistencies with default mailto: account
* (#0006335) When a Quick Search filter tab already existed, it was not focused by searching for the same text
* (#0007358) Newly created Folders could lost their data when they were moved outside parent folders and then renamed
* (#0007318) HTML Template macros were producing HTML entities in headers
* (#0007298) HTML Quick Templates were inserted as HTML code in the editor
* When importing from Microsoft Office Outlook contacts, and a contact did contain a distribution list, The Bat! could not continue importing addresses.
* Fixed an AV when importing a corrupt address book
* Fixed a serious bug with state-dependent encodings like UTF-7 - last character could have been lost.
* HTML templates in Address Group Editor
* (#0006491) String: Orphan filters not translatable
* (#0006488) Color names in the color selection combo boxes weren't translatable
* (#0007372) Error "List index out of bounds (20)" when doing drag-and-drop with message list tabs created by Quick Search
* (#0007307) Windows/HTML editor doesn't support Insert/Overwrite, but the corresponding status bar element wasn't hidden.
* (#0005868) Remind Later Textual Error
* (#0007390) Memo box is in Address Book Group has fixed size even dialog is resizable
* (#0007297) Folder commands were not properly updated when the active folder changed while the main window was hidden
* The Bat! failed to generate an RSA key pair with "eToken Pro 4.20B"
* (#0006994) Registry entries are not removed completely during uninstall
* Fixed a bug in ImapUTF7Encode

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