The Bat! Home Edition 5.2 Download

The Bat! Home EditionOverview

The Bat! mail client has a lot of vital benefits and useful features that make your email experience simple and convenient. All these features perfectly fit any Windows OS. Moreover, The Bat! is the first and only email client Certified for Windows Vista by Microsoft Corporation. “Certified for Vista” logo guarantees the highest level of compatibility between Vista and The Bat! mechanisms.

Protection of privacy

The Bat!’s characteristic feature is the most widespread support of authentication protocols and of encryption while working with mail servers.

Anti-virus defense

The other side of safety is protection against malicious codes. The Bat! benefits of its own HTML viewing mechanism – Robin HTML Viewer, as well as of its own image viewing module.

NEW

# New features
* New filter action – "Clear all tags"
* Added profiles for re-filtering a folder
* Filter action to add/delete addresses to/from address book can now extract target addresses from message body with template
* It is now possible to quick-search folders in the folder selection dialogue
* Nickname/Handle from Address Book can be used in TO parameter of /MAIL switch in command line
* Nickname/Handle from Address Book is automatically expanded when used in address macros (TO, CC, ...) in templates
* Added folder set tabs in the folder selection dialogue
* Option to wrap text in "Plain text (Windows)" editor
# Improvements
* "Paste as plain text" option added to popup in the Edit Mail Message Form
* System folders (Inbox, Outbox, Trash, etc.) can have their own settings for templates, deletion etc.
* Now if files are dropped onto an Address History item, the editor uses the corresponding e-mail address as the destination
* Some visual fixes in "View Mode Setup"
* Empty lines are now correctly displayed in POP.log and SMTP.log
* Double clicking on a list column separator expands column to fit its contents
* When an account is created by selecting folder in MAIL folder, the account name and home directory are automatically filled
* Image content is used to determine real image type (for example, name has PNG extension but there is GIF image inside)
# Fixes
* View Mode option "Expand All Threads" cannot be ignored during changing threading or switching between View Modes anymore
* Temporary files are now deleted after auto-save in the message editor
* Deletion of common folders could sometimes give an Access Violation error
* Large folders are not opened slowly on Windows XP anymore
* Message create/receive time is correctly displayed without degrading folder loading performance
* Fixed a bug when only the first message was used for checking against filter condition when a filter was applied to several selected messages using Hotkey
* Text settings like Date/Time separator are now retrieved correctly from the system's registry if the text is one character long
* Message list cannot lose changes made by incoming filters anymore (setting color group in IMAP folder for incoming messages wasn't visible before refreshing folder)
* Fixed stack overflow when trying to parse malicious or malformed HTML with too many nesting tags
* Fixed problem with wrong timezone offset in new message header if "(GMT) Greenwich Mean Time: Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London" timezone is used in daylight saving time
* "Resend" message action now uses "Delivery type" option in "Account Properties" to send message immediately or put it in Outbox
* Fixed "-ERR Invalid command" response from POP3 server when opening message in Dispatcher
* Fixed an AV when trying to save attachment by drag-and-dropping it from message stored on HDD (anti-virus check enabled)
* Application does not freeze when doing mass mailing of big messages anymore
* Solved the problem that appeared when copying/moving several messages between folders of the same Gmail account
* File selection dialog does not hide current window – message editor or address book – anymore
* Fixed memory corruption if Message Finder was closed when searching was in progress
* Solved the problem when System Hotkey "Open MailTicker messages" did not bring opened message to front on Windows XP
* Fixed possible deadlock when updating counters for IMAP folder
* Fixed the problem with certain graphics that could not be accessed in tabs
* Solved possible access violations related to logging subsystem
* Fixed reported errors on some received S/MIME messages that were encrypted by weak keys