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.

What's new:
[*] Possibility to define font styles for regular message text
[+] New macro: %QuoteIgnoreSeparator to instruct all subsequent quotes in the template to ignore the separator sequence ("-- "). E.g. you can use %QuoteIgnoreSeparator%QUOTES in your template to quote the full text of original message including signatures.
[-] Fixed a bug when restoring an address book with national characters from backup archive or pasting an address entry with national characters. If somebody did restore an address book from the backup and got the national characters corrupted, just install 4.1.7 and restore the address books from the same backup archive.