March 5th, 2012· "Print Preview" - big icon
· (#0009010) It is now possible to enable/disable prompt on printing of multiple messages
· "Messages header" hint design was changed
· URL Hints were redesigned
· "Mark as not Junk" is now moving messages from Junk folder to Inbox as in versions before v5
· Scheduler event could not be auto-deleted after execution
· IMAP. Fixed bug with some servers returning 0 as UIDNEXT (resulting infinite counter update)
· Changed https to http, now redirecting on the techsupport site works properly
· Command line parameter /EXIT does not start program termination before command line processing is finished anymore
· (#0009018) The "&" characters in IMAP folder names are now rendered properly
· Preferences "HTML Viewer" was translated
· Mark as Junk (Mark as Not Junk) cannot raise "List index out of bounds" exception anymore
· Fixed memory corruption when task is executed very fast (short tasks like "Mark message as read")
· (#0009032) Non-MIME forwarding of multiple messages to a single address is not processing wrong messages anymore
· (#0009037) Message list item at start of a branch is now updated immediately when messages are grouped by subject/sender/recipient
· (#0009007) Change of message's colour group while viewing a Virtual Folder is shown immediately
· (#0009041) Problems with HTML message display solved
· IMAP. Appended messages are now fetched from server and cannot be implicitly modified ("Sizes differ!!" error when moving messages between accounts)
· (#0008975) Added right mouse button menu in the message redirect dialogue's address part
· (#0008821) When multiple messages are forwarded, the body does not disappear anymore
· (#0009042) Fixed bug that caused lost spaces in some ill-formed HTML messages
· Fixed problem that did not permit connecting to "localhost" (cannot correctly resolve this host name)
· (#0009021) Message list now supports Quick Search and filtering that uses Unicode characters
· Forwarding multiple messages to a single address from a Common Folder is working correctly
· Fixed "Connection failed" error when failed to connect to the first address of the host with multiple addresses
· (#0009057) Fixed problem when a default account was used without trying to find the most suitable one when replying to messages from Common Folders
· (#0009053) Fixed problems when parent was changed for a newly created folder
January 30th, 2012· Extra underscore in quick templates
· Charsets are not used when importing from vCard
· The text turn into Asian font when a quick template is inserted
· Exception in TLogThread can prevent program from being closed
· Missing string "Download Folder Contents task" in CC queue
· Translated labels in QR Code Generator are wrongly positioned
· Option "Do not store password, prompt for mail retrieval" is enabled by default when creating new account
· /EXPORT command line parameter gave "Invalid pointer operation" error
· Fixed Access Violation error when adding or viewing untrusted Root certificates during a TLS connection
December 28th, 2011· An option to specify time format for the message list in the Preferences dialog. Now the time format by default fits time format used in previous version of The Bat!
· An option to not show message time after the date in the message list; the option can be configured in the Preferences dialog
· Options for Automatic update IMAP folder subscription at startup
· Plugin API: Certificates can be added to "Trusted Root CA"
· Added U.S. English interface language
· You can copy multiple filters to the clipboard by clicking "Copy" on a root node
· You can paste multiple filters from clipboard
· Plugin API: Photo and certificate can be accessed in address book contact
· Plugin API: Contacts and groups in address book can be deleted
· Plugin API: Address book can be created from scratch
· Plugin API: BeginUpdate/EndUpdate methods to perform major changes in address book (suspend repainting)
· The Bat is now able to handle Certificate Request Files (PKCS#10). If you try import this request file to your list of certificates, The Bat! will search for certificates with private keys that has permission to sign certificates, and will sign the request, so you will import the signed certificate rather than the request.
· %VALIDFILECHARS macro that takes an argument and replaces invalid characters to underscore (or character from the second argument). It is useful in Sorting Office Filters that create folders and uses other macros like %OSUBJ as a folder name, e.g. %VALIDFILECHARS="%OSUBJ"
· When clicking to a button to display external HTML images, it now loads the images
· Added "Certum Trusted Network CA" root certificate to the list of trusted root certificates
· An IMAP fine-tune option to resend IDLE command each 30 seconds, may be useful if a router in between closes idle TCP/IP connections
· The macro %VALIDFILECHARS also handles names with a dot as a last character, and it also handles device names like COM1 properly
· Some incorrectly-encoded "Date" headers are now parsed better and it produces correct display of creation date in the message list.
· If a date line in the header is improperly encoded, then the current date is substituted, rather than that original date corrected
· When no host name was specified for an IMAP server, a friendly error message is given the same way as was for a POP3 server.
· If no account or folder is selected when The Bat! starts, the Inbox of first non-password protected account is selected
· Plugin API: Added flags to distinguish auto/manual/hot-key invocation of filters
· IMAP Folders with \NoSelect flags are handled more correctly
· Plugin API: Mail message operations are executed synchronously
· Plugin API: User confirmation is needed to add certificate to "Trusted Root CA"
· Plugin API: Groups in address book are created with "Hide items if not explicitly selected" option enabled
· Address history now uses the same date/time format as the message list
· An option to insert textual representation rather than the image for an emoticon (smiley) in the HTML editor is now OFF by default
· Added the NNT extension when importing address book from Eudora
· (#0008898) Checking whether mailto URLs are containing UTF-8 encoded text
· Languages in the interface language selection menu are sorted alphabetically, but English is always first, so if you accidentally switch to a language that you don't understand, you will at least be able to select English by choosing the first element.
· Now errors detected in JPEG images (e.g. embedded to HTML message) are only logged to the ex_log.txt when a command line option /REPORT_JPEG_ERRORS is set.
· If an IMAP connection is closed during IDLE command or when no command is active, i.e. between NOOPs, no message that connection closed is displayed to the log in the status bar (however, if a protocol log is turned on, the message is logged there)
· (#0008522) Error "The message is sent but could not be moved from Outbox to the Sent folder" will now not be obscured by lesser subsequent messages
· (#0004345) Last status for option "Mark messages in sub-folders" in "Mark all messages as read" dialog is not remembered
· (#0004153) The Bat! is now able to decode some improperly-encoded mail addresses
· Folder|Refresh command for a virtual folder now invokes total rescan.
· When an IMAP server doesn't support the UNSELECT extension, and multiple IMAP connections to the same server were allowed, The Bat! no longer creates new connections after closing concurrent connections with LOGOUT command
· SmartBat didn't show date lines using different style
· (#0007708) Signing/Encrypting with gpg2 shows pin-entry window and TheBat's passphrase window
· 0008526: Deleting folders in TB doesn't delete folders on HDD for empty and virtual folders
· Minor bug while counting messages for virtual folders
· (#0007737) Help-button in Change Mail Protocol-dialogue doesn't work
· Sometimes a filter action to move a message to a folder couldn't be created due to invalid checking of folder file name, it could fail on a legitimate name.
· For some reason list of shared filters can contain nil's during restoring from backup (but it MUST NOT)
· A sorting office action to move or copy messages to folders with templates in the destination folder names, did prevent from specifying template arguments which did contain non-file characters
· LibrariesEntryPoints must be initialized BEFORE loading plug-ins
· The Bat! now formats date and time in the message list using Windows API. You can configure different formats in the Regional options in the Control Panel.
· IMAP. Empty message is produced when trying to redirect partially downloaded message
· The calculation of current week in the message list was invalid
· (#0005279) Time in message list is different from time in message
· Filter editor checks clipboard contents 20 times per second (clipboard managers can conflict with The Bat)
· the program could stuck at startup due to calculation of repetitions of some scheduled Events
· Filter editor can fail to check clipboard contents - retry again after some time (clipboard managers can conflict with The Bat)
· Action can be prematurely destroyed when instructed to wait for (from main thread) but not return to caller (resulted in odd exceptions)
· (#0008397) URLs copied from MS Word get lost
· (#0008848) Marking message as read after copying by a filter was not working
· Cannot open attachments from externally saved messages (in eml-file for example)
· Sometimes the labels were incorrectly displayed in the connection center
· Message memo could not be changed from plugin
· When an invalid password was specified for an IMAP account, The Bat! displayed invalid error message
· Cannot get messages with POP protocol error (Range check error)
· The automatic folder creation option for IMAP filters was creating local folders instead of IMAP ones
· IMAP. Message isn't marked as read when deleted to local Trash folder
· AV error when trying to get host name by IP-address
· Search for non-ASCII text could miss matching messages
· Plugin API: Problems when adding contacts and groups in address book
· On creating new spartpad files, first character could be question mark
· Smartpad might remove national characters and other Smartpad-related fixes
· Plugin API: Contacts in address book wasn't updated when changed from API
· Some errors of file open/save dialogues weren't logged to the user.
· The Bat! was unable to add a root certificate to trusted store
· (#0008885) Filters could not be called from a separate message viewer under some circumstances
· "Failed to store..." warning when some messages was deleted by antispam/antivirus plug-in in POP session.
· Option to display a message as the root of a Subject/To/From message list group was ignored
· Plugin API: Some methods weren't declared as "stdcall"
· (#0008813) Operations with X.509 certificates in the account properties weren't saved
· When opening a message on IMAP that contained inline html graphics, The Bat! could display a progress window without a caption
· Clearing IMAP cache in folder properties could lead to "access violation" errors on disconnected accounts
· (#0008369) Address Book : Menu entry "Windows Certificate Store" is enabled, even Internal SMIME is selected
· Some malformed HTML messages took very long time to load
· (#0008672) "Windows Certificate Store" menu item disappears
· Plain text messages saved as HTML have been shown as a single line
· TBMAPI.DLL gave error messages
· Fixed some memory leaks
· If a user did drag a message from The Bat! to an external application, national characters might have been lost
· Some fixes related to copy-paste in HTML messages
· The Bat! had incorrect default font size and face since version 4 for all dialogs and menus. Before version 4, for example, it did use "Segoe UI" size 9, as recommended in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa511295 , but since version 4 it was using smaller font sizes, which is harder to read on higher-resolution monitors. Also, before version 4, The Bat! did use "Microsoft YaHei" size 10 for Simplified Chinese and "Microsoft JhengHei" size 10 for Traditional Chinese, but since then incorrectly used Segoe UI size 8 for Chinese.
· Previous Alpha gave an AV when editing folder properties
· Fixed a few bitmap leaks in the QR Code
· Removed flickering of the "download images" button
· Fixed an access violation when switching between sessions of different IMAP accounts in the connection monitor
· Range check error while trying to select text below the end of message in MicroEd (using Shift-Arrows)
· Fixed an AV when inserting smileys
· The Bat! will no longer show "GifImage:5 EReadError" on invalid GIF files.
· Logged JPEG errors didn't have error numbers or explanation text messages logged.
· Hint display mode wasn't stored (Options|Preferences|Hints)
· Fixed deadlocks when filtering messages
· Some DES and Triple-DES messages couldn't be decrypted.
· Fixed Stack Overflow error when handling large groups of IMAP messages, e.g. moving 10000 messages from one folder to another on IMAP.
· (#0008915) Filters were not creating new Common folders automatically.
· "Invalid pointer operation" when trying to close message editor after inserting invalid JPG image in HTML editor
· Accounts with empty names could sometimes appear in the folder tree and could not be deleted
· It was impossible to change receive mail protocol (e.g. from POP3 to Exchange) in the account properties.
· IMAP connection errors weren't properly reported. There was just a message "connection unexpectedly closed" without the actual description of the error
· Wrong time formatting for today's messages in MailTicker
· (#0008944) If UIDPLUS extension is not supported by server and Outbox is stored on server, than message cannot be sent directly from editor
· The Bat! did't handle properly when the user clicked "Manage IMAP folders" on a password-protected account.
· When POP-before-SMTP authentication was enabled, and there were an option to prompt the password (do not store it), then cancelling password input on the POP3 session did endlessly invoke new POP3 sessions.
· After adding a certificate from the certificate viewer to the address book, a background window got focused.
· (#0002528) MailTicker wasn't hidden when it contained only messages outside the age limits
· (#0008945) The "Move processed file" option of the "Watch and Send files" scheduler action could leave processed files intact
· (#0008914) Opening an .EML message and trying to forward it gave an AV
· (#0008580) When using /AES_BENCHMARK, The Bat! did quit after testing
· (#0007230) With multiple accounts that didn't store POP3 server password (prompt on retrieval), entering the password needs additional clicks to invoke the respective window.
· (#0008953) Messages downloaded in "headers + only text" mode were not downloaded in full for viewing their source
· (#0008663) No IMAP connection is possible if the "Do not store password, prompt on mail retrieval" option is enabled.
· (#0008930) Message list getting shorter and shorter in the separate viewer window if the window is maximized
· (#0007428) Extensions of saved messages are always uppercased
· (#0008825) When messages were grouped by sender/recipient/subject and then by date, lower level groups were not split
· High and low priority messages were displayed on IMAP as normal messages
· Errors in counting of unread messages in virtual folders
· (#0004830) System-wide hotkeys to send mail from current account or receive mail to current account that have Shift in them did modify the action to send/receive mail from/to all accounts. Now Shift won't affect system-wide hotkeys. But if the user will just press "Shift" during normal clicks to send mail from current account or receive mail to current account, the modifier will work.
· The Options|Preferences dialog didn't allow Unicode strings to be entered
· (#0004110) Security hole: Dialog about "Passed event" is displayed before logging into The Bat!
· (#0007055) TB! hanged when (auto)started while a scheduled task must be run
· (#0001903) Reminder about missed event was open as minimized
· (#0008107) Forwarding multiple messages from a common folder was using random formats
· (#0008859) The %MEMO macro was not working for messages being filtered
· AV when filtering by message header text
· "Transfer encoding for non-ASCII characters" group-box wasn't visible in Exchange account
· (#0008951) Order of message list tabs was not stored
· Fixed some bugs in IMAP that might sent unnecessary commands to the server and might slow certain operation like filtering messages
· If a filter action to copy/move a message to specified folder could not find or create the folder, no error message was given to the log, the action was silently skipped
· (#0008242) Redirect dialog: position and size of dialog can be changed, but is not saved
· (#0004490) Address Book column settings could not be backed up/restored
· (#0008451) Image Download Button : context menu is not allways available via right mouse button
· (#0006844) "Download all images" option for HTML messages did not work
· (#0008461) Image Download Manager : when changing "Source" of rule, "Condition" is disabled
· (#0008856) Filtering by conditions containing "NOT ..." could produce wrong results
· (#0008962) Remote images were not offered for download
July 1st, 2011· Plain text parts with size over 100K are not longer rendered as HTML to avoid memory overload
· Access violation occurred while trying to move the sent mail into the IMAP-Sent-Folder.
· Fixed duplicating new messages in the list when new messages arrive into the folder being viewed
· Saving a message doesn’t put progress window on top of “Save as” dialog anymore (under WinXP)
· Problem with program start when it is already launched is fixed
· New messages are now handled right by Mail Ticker
· Focused messages weren't reselected upon changing threading mode
· Local IMAP folders are now skipped during periodical/manual message downloading
July 1st, 2011· It is now possible to set CC and BCC fields when redirecting messages
· "Message|Edit as New" action
· Filter Logging pane in the Re-filtering dialogue
· IMAP. "Do not use IDLE command" option added
· Smart algorithm to replace slash characters in attached file names opened for viewing by external applications. Slashes around digits are replaced to dashes, other slashes to underscores.
· Added support for the Armenian language
· Removed debug logging for CSAPI spelling engine
· Possibility to choose whether the tab filtering should replace or be added to the current message list filter
· More debug messages if The Bat! runs with "/STARTUP_TIMING_LOG" command line option, to help find the problem of lockup after the "SetupTokenIfVoyager" event
· Preview button for Mail Ticker do not work (renamed to Apply)
· Filtering actions are now called in different way so unexpected behaviour should be avoided
· IMAP. Don't raise exception when trying to get contents of expunged message. Just finish this task.
· Coping/moving multiple messages from one folder to another within the same IMAP account can cause "downloading" overlay icon over destination folder to persist forever. It also prevents the program from being closed.
· "Deleting a tree node..." error while trying to edit account properties when access is restricted in "Network and Administration"
· "tsViewer" error while trying to edit preferences when access is restricted in "Network and Administration"
· Text in HTML message is centered instead left-aligned
· Minor AVs fixed
· The program was left in memory when entering the master password was cancelled
· Sending multiple files from Windows Explorer was not working
· Exception "TImapFolderCounterSearchTask.CommandCompleted CheckBaseCount > 5" (quick fix, possible problem with flag handling on some servers - need more investigation)
· No Unread/Total counters in password protected account
· Empty unread/total counters in account tree for newly created POP3 account or remote IMAP4 folder
· Virtual folders could not be edited
· Quick Template was passed incorrectly when used with the "Reply using Template" command.
· IMAP. Folder with national characters in name cannot be used as system folder (Outbox, Sent, ...)
· Some exceptions must not appear in exception log
· Problem with opening of the files containing incorrect characters
· Attached files, opened for viewing by external applications (e.g. .DOC files) weren't saved as read-only
· Bug with loading drafts into editor from IMAP-server-based Outbox
· "List index out of bounds" when deleting several messages
· Testing of filters actually caused full filtering processing
· "Delete and follow next/previous" feature broken
· Some status bar menus in the message editor and SmartBat could ignore user input
· Saving messages in text format was generating files empty before the next save or program's shutdown
· It was not possible to restart search in the same Finder window once it was stopped.
· Advanced options were not working for Web-like and text search
· HTML hints weren't updated with a new version
· Fixed a small glitch in the about box
· Message list tabs that are working with anything but current message list were not using specified filters
· Removing duplicates was not working in OTFE mode
· Birthday reminder does not work
· 5.0.12.3 When Replying to plain text messages, the text disappears
· Some self-tests use ExitProcess instead of raising exception
· "Follow next/previous" in a separate viewer window wraps around the message list
· Fixed an AV in the "select file associations" dialog
· IMAP "APPEND" command had low timeout, not enough to copy a message from a local to a remote folder over slow connections
· Changing active account for a message creates duplicate
· Images are printed reduced (5.0.12)
· Test for circular reference in folder DB was raising exception instead of silent close
· History was not supported in the Message Redirect form
· Fixed sporadic interface language reset at startup
· Virtual Folders were not updated after changes were made on filters on folder set
· Age limits and priority filtering Mail Ticker settings were ignored
· No HTML end tag in message
· Fixed interface language reset to English at startup
· Deleting a folder from The Bat! does remove its physical folder on disk if the folder is a sub-folder
· Message list did adjust its view when new messages arrived into the currently viewed folder
· The "bcc=..." parameter of the mailto: URL was ignored
· Option to delete messages after deletion from Trash was ignored
· Links were not working in Source Viewer
· Some windows were shifted when reopened when task bar was positioned in non-standard fashion
· AV when trying to change viewer for plain-text messages
· Problem with releasing messages from Mail Ticker
May 3rd, 2011· "When browsing messages, retrieve only message text" and "Except messages smaller than" options must be enabled by default
· Deleting IMAP folder cache causes wrong Total messages account counter
· Incorrect port was displayed for IMAP accounts on Account Info panel
· Message List: Sorting Subject/From/To groups by latest time was not functional
· Inline graphics disappear when opening multiple messages
· When both options to automatically mark message as read were switched off, messages still were marked as read
· message about old format in new versions
· Handling reply/forward commands for inline viewers of messages wasn't working properly
· Replied filters wasn't executed automatically
· 5.0.8 AVs while switching between pictures tabs in message view
· Deletion attachments was not refreshing messages in the Finder's message list
· HTML QT included in TEXT Folder template produces HTML code in Microed
· IMAP download preferences specified in account settings wasn't used by default in all folders
· the TO field was not focused when a message was forwarded in non-MIME format
· Thread operations were ignoring date grouping
· Empty folders function was broken in v5
· IMAP : Option "When inactive, disconnect after" does not work
· Rethreading function was working wrong when the dragged message was droppend onto itself causing hiding of the message from the list
· Delete button was working as "delete and follow next" when message list was switched off in the separate message list viewer
· message export/save as function was using non-modal file save dialogue causing problems on some systems
· Option "Play sound when new mail arrives" doesn't work
· Print function is now functional in the image viewer
· The last used Address Book was not recalled after restart
· Connection Centre : Log window is empty for POP and SMTP tasks
· When encrypting a message, The Bat! will no loger use SubjectKeyIdentifier for compatibility with other programs which do not support this structure.
· In S/MIME signatures, the attribute ESSCertIDv2 is now added.
· EML/MSG/VCF association erro under WinXP when saving Preferences dialog
· Reading Confirmations could not be generated
· v5.0.8 fails to print large messages to the end
· AV when switching to "Subscribed only" tab in IMAP folder manager
· Folder Information Panels Bug!
· Links in HTML mail get mangled
· Drag and drop message in same folder
· All messages after review of properties of a folder are lost - Russian version (5.0.8(.1))
· Replies to messages from .EML files were empty
· Sending a file from Windows Explorer was not working
· Image smileys were not working when The Bat! was started from a desktop shortcut with no "Start in" folder defined
· IMAP : Option "Mark deleted messages as read" in IMAP account properties is not applied
· When clicking Minimize, Maximize, Close Button in v5.0.8, the program hangs a while, and the cursor can't be moved.
April 8th, 2011· New image download manager
· Added a visual indicator for loading message lists of IMAP folders
· Color groups can be assigned to IMAP messages
· Improved certificate chain building for X.509 in S/MIME and TLS
· IMAP. Partial message loading
· IMAP. Loading of remotely stored attachments
· "Resend to" action added to support both local and remote attachments
· Excel compatibility option added when exporting contacts in CSV format
· Graceful server disconnect for IMAP
· An account option to not use filters on IMAP in the "IMAP fine-tune" section
· It's now possible to search for RegExp and other The Bat!-specific criterias in IMAP folders and in offline-mode (in cached messages only)
· IMAP connection is now monitored mostly like in versions prior to 5
· It's now possible to define colour and text style for Quick Search tabs
· Information about selected/total and filtered messages is now displayed on status bar in the main window and message viewer
· It's now possible to print from SmartBat
· Better decoding/encoding of some badly-encoded national characters, The Bat! now uses smarter recovery algorithms
· Better display of unknown attributes of X.509 certificates
· Remove thread start/finish debug messages from the "ex_log.txt" file
· Getting folder contents was reorganized
· IMAP folder can be specified (and created if needed) as destination of filter
· Folder download options was reorganized
· Pop-up menus of IMAP accounts/folders was reorganized
· Cosmetic changes in IMAP download tab
· IMAP related account and folder properties was reorganized
· Redesigned IMAP folder manager
· Plugin API. Refined handling of before/after filter events
· %AttachOriginalFiles macros is now supported in all auto-generated messages (not only forward)
· IMAP message bases are now stored in a separate "IMAP" folders to prevent troubles when the user switches back and forth between versions 4 and 5 of The Bat!
April 21st, 2010· improved speed of POP3 message retrieving
January 30th, 2010· "Do nothing" option for the "Watch and send files" Scheduler's action to control execution of other actions
· Improved speed of handling folder names. This may be noticeable on very large folder trees
· Changed DEP detection algorithm for the operating systems prior to Windows Vista (e.g. for Windows XP with SP3 and Windows Server 2003)
· If there were an invalid birthday date stored in the address book, The Bat! did only report error "invalid argument to date encode", without further clarification for the user what might have caused the error. Now more detailed information is given.
· Clicking the "How to register" menu item have caused the "File not found" error message
· (#0007845) Error Message when exiting "save as" in Graphic Viewer
· (#0007852) An error after dropping a dragged attachment to a Windows desktop
· The Certificate Selection window and Certificate Search Results windows did save the coordinates to a wrong location in Registry
· (#0007844) Font family not set in HTML mail
· (#0007859) After renaming an account, folder structure is not saved
December 29th, 2009· This holiday issue has some new features and a series of fixes. Speaking of innovations, we should mention the possibility to define alternative paths for the "Extract attachments" action in the Sorting Office and the introduction of Elliptic Curves Cryptography in addition to RSA for S/MIME internal implementation.
· Starting with The Bat! 4.2.16 Christmas Edition, users can assign folder paths for auto-saving attachments using The Bat!'s Sorting Office. This feature will surely occupy an important place in the process of filing organization. With this new feature users can automatically arrange documents they receive in a way that is the most convenient for them.
· Elliptic Curves Cryptography is a relatively new approach to public-key cryptography. The algorithm that uses elliptic curves is more effective than RSA algorithm – for obtaining the same level of security, the latter needs more resources for information storing and transfer. On this basis, using ECC is a good alternative to RSA algorithm. Now The Bat! users also have this alternative and can choose between these two algorithms when generating a new certificate.
June 8th, 2009· Added the ability for users to schedule when and how emails should be sent.
· Using standard Windows settings it is possible to specify the date and/or time of delivery for a given email or group of emails. This facility may be useful in a wide range of circumstances from ensuring a birthday greeting is sent on time to the scheduling of a large mailshot. While other email clients, such as Outlook, also allow you schedule a delivery time for a single email it is not possible to do this for all outgoing emails.
· Also allows you to determine a period of delay before sending an email. Instead of specifying an exact date and time, the message can be delayed for a period of minutes, hours or even days. The delay may be used to allow the message to be updated, edited, deleted or postponed further. This feature helps to reduce the risk of sending something by mistake or in the heat of the moment.
· In Outlook it is only possible to recall messages if an Exchange Server is used and if the recipient happens to use the same Exchange Server within the same organization. Even when these conditions are met, it is impossible to recall an email that has already been opened.
· Goes further in allowing the moment of delivery to be assigned in the message template for certain mailboxes, folders, recipients and so on. This option offers many benefits – for example, users can ensure there is always a built-in delay when sending emails to particular recipients or about certain subjects.
· RITLabs has also made it possible to pre-set the delivery time for bulk mailings. Using this feature, a sender can prepare a personalized mailshot in advance and specify the exact time when it should be sent. An example might be a monthly reminder about service payments. The user can pick the first day of the next month as the sending date. Another example could be that the editor of a weekly newsletter could prepare several issues in advance then go on holiday confident that each one will be sent automatically at the beginning of each week.
· Frees users from having to send an email the moment they finish writing it. Instead they can choose when to send it. They can change the amount of delay for an individual message or set a typical delay for all emails by selecting the appropriate option from a drop-down menu.
January 30th, 2009· [-] West European characters with accents are not lost in HTML Quick templates
· [-] Fixed the %WINDOWSPLATFORMNAME% macro for "Windows 7" and "Windows 2008 Server"
· [-] The hints in the status bar are not blinking now
· [*] If the text in the tabs is longer than the tab itself, the full text is shown in the hint
· [*] The menu item "Download International Pack" now opens the national download page instead of an English one
· [-] Keyboard "Caps Lock" indicator in the password input dialog boxes is now localizable
· [-] Greek dictionary is supported now (Hunspell)
· [-] The Bat! now does not insert Full Pathname as image filename
· [-] Anti-virus checking for outgoing messages now works properly
· [-] If The Bat! has an anti-virus plug-in, a message with a virus in textual part can now be either cured or received
· [+] Added auto-highlight for icq: and rss: URLs
· [-] Print Setup/Template Preview does not give an AV now
· [-] The redirect action can now be edited in the Sorting Office
· [-] "Search for lost folders" locates nested folders properly
· [-] The Bat! does not report about resource leaks that appear during the shutdown of Windows
December 25th, 2008· 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.
· Users with The Bat! v.4.0 licence, as well as The Bat! v.3 users that purchased the program after November, 20, 2007, can use their existing licence keys with no additional payments or updates. Registered users of The Bat! are eligible for a 30% discount for The Bat! 4.1. Previously purchased keys are not cancelled and can be used at the same time in accordance with the terms of the licence agreement.
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