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.
After the hot summer here comes September with the new The Bat! version. It has been almost four months since we released the latest stable version back in May. No time has been wasted and now we are happy to present The Bat! v3.85. The whole list of changes you will find hereinafter, but to cut a long story short – this is a stable version of programme with a fistful of fixes and improvements.
As usual, updating to the latest version of the programme is easy: there is no need in uninstalling your existing copy of The Bat! – just install the new version over. All the settings, messages and address books will be preserved.
[ ! Major Improvement ]
[ + Added feature ]
[ * Improved/changed feature ]
[ - Bug fixed (we hope) ]
[*] Ability to change autochecking and check on startup from cmdline
[*] cmdline /add additional parameters
[*] The option “Keep association between signing and encryption certificates” in S/MIME CryptoAPI implementation is now ON by default.
[*] “Enable OpenPGP” editor option is now OFF by default for new accounts.
[*] Better transport protocol logging for Exchange (MAPI) connections.
[*] A new query “This mass mailing has found contacts in the address book that share the same e-mail address. Do you wish to skip duplicates contacts in this mass mailing so there will be one message per distinct e-mail?”
[*] Submission Form editing buttons in the “Preferences” dialog will be invisible unless you use /EDIT_SUBMISSION_FORMS command line parameter.
[*] When logging TLS Socket error codes, the explanation is given in attention to numeric error.
[*] Removed additional “New” nesting from the address book and the Sorting Office editor window.
[*] Now there are more details in TLS error messages.
[*] The log file of exceptions is now kept in Unicode format, it is now ex_log.txt (was except.log)
[*] The Bat! did store “User Depot” in Registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RIT\The Bat!\Users depot) and if a registry key was deleted, after you run The Bat! and select the directory to “Store E-mail data”, The Bat! now is able to find the accounts stored in this directory and offer you to use them, so you don’t have to run the Account Creation Wizzard for each account.
[+] When connecting to Microsoft Exchange Server via MAPI, you can turn on “Log transport details” options in the account properties, Transport tab. This will create account_exchange.log file in your account directory during subsequent MAPI sessions. This log file is in Unicode format.
[+] Option to change IMAP interval for fetching all flags
[+] Ability to check for updates on start up and from scheduler
[+] New command line parameter /DONTSTAYONTOPLOGO which prescribes The Bat! do show the startup logo window, but this window would not stay on top over the other windows.
[+] A button to add submission forms.
[+] Default values for submission forms can also be loaded from XML files.
[+] The Bat! now keeps associations between recipient emails and certificates for encryption also for S/MIME Internal Implementation. Previously, this have been done only for signing, not for encryption in S/MIME Internal Implementation. However, in CryptoAPI Implementation, both signing and encryption certificates were associated with emails.
[+] “Autosubmit” option in Submission Forms.
[+] Added support for anyExtendedKeyUsage in EnhKeyUsage certificate extension.
[+] New macro %FOLDERFULLNAME
[-] When sending outgoing messages via Exchange protocol while another session with this Exchange server was active, the message was left in Outbox rather than queuing out for deletion.
[-] When importing Windows Address Book (Outlook Express), address groups weren’t handled properly.
[-] Incorrect filtering by priority in VFs and ViewModes
[-] Other: broken multiforward from common folders
[-] The Report text-box in the Maintenance Center don’t scrolls down
[-] Inconsistences of forwarding messages from filters
[-] TheBat! missed icons on some low-color environments
[-] MAPI: attached files had extensions .tmp instead of correct ones
[-] In S/MIME CryptoAPI implementation, if a certificate did contain several e-mail addresses, The Bat! could use this certificat with one address onlyl, and the other e-mail addresses were ignored.
[-] In S/MIME CryptoAPI, you might be getting “The revocation status of the certificate or one of the certificates in the certificate chain is either off-line or stale” error. Now The Bat! ignores CERT_TRUST_IS_OFFLINE_REVOCATION error and you should no longer get this error message.
[-] MAPI: fixed ignorance of “To:” field
[-] If a user selects an account root entry but not a single folder, then in the menu Tools/Import messages, all of the sub-menu items are grayed out, including Mailbox Import Wizard which is not folder-specific.
[-] Invalid characters were displayed in some of the columns of submission forms dialogue.
[-] When account configuration files were missing in the account directory, the message templates became blank, instead of getting back to default.
[-] Some details of CryptoAPI errors might not be displayed properly to the user.
[-] The option “bind attachments only while sending out mail” could cause The Bat! to send messages with 0-sized attachments if the files were held by another applications (locked) or deleted since the user have attached the files but before sending them out.
[-] When working with OpenPGP and trying to encrypt to a missing certificate, then the “error” dialog didn’t hide after pressing OK or Close button.
[-] The option “Bind attachments only while sending out mail” will now be OFF by default for newly-created accounts.
[-] Some print drivers might give “Invalid floating point operation”.
[-] There might be question marks in the account log.
[-] Button captions in the “Connection Centre” could be incorrectly displayed under Windows XP.
[-] Checking new messages on Exchange server when there were thousands of already received mails on the server but no new messages, was very slow.
[-] When working with Exchange server and the option to delete messages on server was “ON”, The Bat! didn’t delete messages from “Sent” folder.
[-] Concurrent Exchange sessions might hang.
[-] There might be question marks in the maintenance centre.
[-] There were question marks in the Menu Navigator
[-] System error messages should be given in the language of The Bat! interface if Windows supports this language.
[-] Fixed “multiple quotes” bug when working with Exchange server via MAPI or importing messages from MS Outlook.
[-] Probably a fix for ‘Server reports it is not ready, reply: “”‘ meaningless error message.
[-] Probably a fix for ‘Server reports it is not ready, reply: “”‘ meaningless error message.
[-] problem with Folder Properties dialog on large fonts
[-] S/MIME Internal Implementation didn’t allow to encrypt to certificates that did not contain a private key.
[-] When during a POP3 session there were an exception (e.g. AV) during import to the message base or filter processing, no further messages were processed, The Bat! did silently stop importing messages, although continue to retrieve them from server
[-] When a filter did try export messages to non-existing drive, the importing process could stall
[-] When a filter did fail to export messages, there were no error given
[-] problem with exporting message with deleted external attachment
[-] default created viewmodes don’t work
[-] ‘Yesteday’ filter in VMs and tabs
[-] (#0005899) Updating Filters when changing account name
[-] (#0005396) “Move up”, “Move down”, “Move in”, “Move out” are not working correctly when moving folders across accounts in OTFE mode
[-] (#0000647) TB is connecting to server if is TRIAL PERIOD EXPIRED window displayed
[-] (#0001334) Button ‘Open PGP Signature Validation Log’ works improperly
[-] (#0005919) Invalid display of folder tabs when The Bat! interface language is different from Windows language for non-unicode programs
[-] (#0005931) Messages Tab gui oddity; not showing searched text
[-] (#0005917) TB! v. 3.81.04 fails to paint a complete window on launch; and the Mail Ticker flashes/flickers.
[-] (#0005528) it was not possible to print EML files
[-] (#0002787) “Main Menu” String in Menu Navigator was untranslatable
[-] (#0004545) AB entry popup/file menu entry use the wrong string
[-] (#0000721) Wrong charset is used in Log window (message dlPOPLogMsgInfo)
[-] (#0001041) Connection Centre: Task display does not refresh properly
[-] (#0005119) “Tools” / “Privacy” / “Verify Signature” calls verification process twice if the first fails
[-] (#0002776) No recipient error usability issue while saving draft
[-] (#0002956) The Bat sometimes generates MIME headers longer than 79 characters when using “name=” or “filename=” parameters, this can be avoided by using folding.
[-] (#0004216) Importing CSV into AB with a field in one char produces empty field
[-] (#0002363) Import of Suffix & Prefix Reversed from comma-delimited CSV file
[-] (#0005762) duplicated e-mail address while importing cert
[-] (#0002765) The Bat! doesn’t respond properly to shutdown or logoff messages
[-] (#0005370) Empty main window after a restore or abnormal exit on a first run. For example, after restoring from a backup, if the main form is almost empty, the user should switch the “window split mode” to get things back.
[-] (#0005070) Retrieved messages from POP server are not imported because of first message
[-] (#0005975) Untranslatable option “Decrypt message” and whole dialog “Decrypt message” in Sorting Office
[-] (#0005976) Actions are missing in main menu and context menu in Sorting office dialog
[-] (#0005945) Message “No updates available” not translatable
[-] (#0005977) Action “Check for update” and whole dialog “Check for update” in Scheduler is untranslatable
[-] (#0005978) Context menu item “Execute task now” is enabled even no task is selected
[-] (#0005950) Address Book: wrong addresses could appear in pop-up menu for entries with multiple e-mail addresses.
[-] (#0002174) It was possible to gain access to messages in a folder of a password-protected account via reminder action
[-] (#0005985) Move controlelements for a better (German) translation and usability
[-] (#0005985) Move controlelements for a better (German) translation and usability
[-] (#0005991) OTFE: Unable to save a message as text file!
[-] (#0005995) the font of reading confirmation is not suitable for Chinese characters
[-] (#0005994) the font of dlSBCryptPlain is too small for Chinese translation
[-] (#0005987) Attachments are renamed: name -> #name
[-] (#0001384) Replying to an HTML message results in incorrect line break in original message.
[-] (#0001203) Incorrect log with Selective Download
[-] (#0001411) Delete message confirmation is not shown under some occasions
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