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AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager Changelog

What's new in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.3.5.3

Aug 2, 2022
  • Fixed compatibility issues with TheBat 10.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.3.5.1 (Mar 27, 2022)

  • (pro) Added support of OAUTH authentication.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.3.4.8 (Mar 9, 2022)

  • (pro) Fixed an issue with filtering IMAP accounts.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.3.4.7 (Feb 25, 2022)

  • (pro) Fixed a compatibility issue with TheBat 11.
  • (pro) Added IPv6 support.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.3.4.6 (Jan 10, 2021)

  • (pro) Fixed an issue with accessing some mail servers using SSL protected connection.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.3.4.5 (Nov 18, 2020)

  • (pro) Minor bugfixes and UI enhancements.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.3.4.4 (Apr 11, 2020)

  • Fixed an issue with filtering SMTP protocol when SMTP ports (25, 465, 587) are specified in account properties on Accounts tab in plug-in settings.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.3.3.8 (Jul 13, 2018)

  • Fixed a compatibility issue with Windows 10 RS5 Insider Preview.
  • The timeout for TheBat accounts is reduced to 600 seconds (the value can be modified manually).
  • Minor modification for compatibility with TheBat 8.x.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.3.3.7 (Apr 10, 2018)

  • Minor bugfixes.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.3.3.5 (Oct 31, 2017)

  • (pro) Removed support of SpamNet, which stops working soon.
  • (pro) Holding Shift key on the keyboard disables training the statistical classifier during pressing the toolbar buttons "Mark as Spam" and "Mark as Non-Spam".
  • Various bugfixes.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.3.3.3 (Oct 27, 2017)

  • (pro) Fixed a compatibility issue in 64-bit version of the plug-in with current versions of Windows 10 Insider Preview.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.3.3.1 (Oct 20, 2016)

  • Training on outgoing mail messages works for all accounts, including the accounts using SSL.
  • Blocking spam by headers and filtering IMAP works more stable for the domains having multiple IP addresses on Windows 8/10.
  • Fixed extracting email addresses from message body to avoid adding to whitelist wrong items.
  • Other minor bugfixes.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.3.2.7 (Sep 20, 2016)

  • Fixed a compatibility issue with latest builds of Windows 10.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.2.7.5 (Sep 20, 2016)

  • The plug-in filters IMAP accounts faster.
  • Fixed issues with mail servers having multi-domain SSL certificates.
  • URIBL service black.uribl.com is removed due to it's bad performance.
  • Internal bugfixes and optimization.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.3.1.5 / 3.2.7.5 (Jul 13, 2012)

  • (pro) The plug-in filters IMAP accounts faster.
  • (pro) Fixed issues with mail servers having multi-domain SSL certificates.
  • (pro) URIBL service black.uribl.com is removed due to it's bad performance.
  • Internal bugfixes and optimization.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.3.0.3 / 3.2.6.8 (Aug 30, 2011)

  • Fixed an issue with the port number of SniperSync server.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.2.6.4 (Feb 2, 2011)

  • Several changes for better stability.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.2.6.3 (Feb 2, 2011)

  • Several fixes for avoiding UI locks during training and classifying the downloaded mail.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.2.6.1 (Dec 26, 2010)

  • Fixed some issues on Windows XP

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.2.5.7 (Dec 20, 2010)

  • Changes for compatibility with The Bat! 5.x.
  • Several bugfixes.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.2.4.5 (Jun 3, 2010)

  • The mail messages from news groups are classified as messages from mail lists.
  • The whitelist of senders is not used for the messages with forged sender address, classified by a server-side SPF filter.
  • Internal optimization and bugfixes.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.2.3.7 (Feb 27, 2010)

  • The plug-in assigns display name #untrusted# to the whitelist entries, used in From field of the messages marked as spam. The subsequent messages from such addresses are classified with a full set of antispam method.
  • Improved the stability of filtering IMAP accounts and message headers via POP3.
  • Minor changes in UI.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.2.2.7 (Jan 13, 2010)

  • Several fixes for compatibility with Windows 7 and some models of processors.
  • (pro) Auto-training on outgoing mail works for unprotected SMTP connections using any port.
  • The minimum message size in settings is incremented automatically if necessary, during training on spam.
  • (pro) The IMAP folder names in Unicode are decoded properly during checking the list of IMAP exceptions.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.2.2.1 (Nov 1, 2009)

  • The trainable classifier extracts more information from the text of mail messages.
  • (pro) Fixed a deadlock on sending the messages during downloading new mail, when auto-training on outgoing mail is turned on.
  • (pro) Anti-phishing rules are updated.
  • (pro) The parameters of URIBL and SpamNet filters are updated for better spam classification.
  • Fixed a problem with the recognition of forged sender addresses.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.2.1.5 (Sep 25, 2009)

  • The extensions of attachments from messages marked as spam are deleted from the list of exceptions automatically.
  • Fixed a character set in the window for editing sender address.
  • Fixed an issue in the algorithm for detecting forged sender addresses.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.2.1.1 (Jul 6, 2009)

  • It is possible to re-filter the unread messages in current folder, by clicking Classify button on the toolbar when Ctrl key is pressed.
  • Minor UI updates and internal optimization.
  • Fixed the delays occurred when the plug-in was trained during downloading new mail.
  • Added German translation.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.2.0.6 (Apr 30, 2009)

  • (pro) It is possible to use wildcards ('*' masking any number of other symbols) in the list of IMAP exceptions.
  • (pro) The new version can filter IMAP accounts with CRAM-MD5 authentication.
  • The plug-in classifies large text messages faster.
  • Minor bugfixes.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.2.0.1 (Feb 19, 2009)

  • The additional internal whitelist of senders is added for preventing false positives. The plug-in updates this list automatically. It adds to new whitelist the senders of several messages, classified with low spam ratio. The senders of messages marked as spam are removed from the list permanently. The Reason field for the messages classified as non-spam by internal whitelist has a prefix [auto] in Filtering log.
  • The automatic internal lists of exceptions for DNSBL and URIBL contain network subnets and domains from the messages marked as non-spam. The plug-in ignores them during classifying new mail.
  • Added Chinese translation.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.1.0.5 (Jan 5, 2009)

  • Added French and Hungarian translations.
  • (pro) The timeouts of DNS queries are updated to improve the speed of checking IP addresses via DNSBL services.
  • In certain cases the free version created a file spamnet.cfg on the desktop.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.1.0.3 (Dec 4, 2008)

  • The plug-in exports the filtering log to text files using UTF8 encoding.
  • Added Norwegian translation.
  • Minor internal bugfixes and optimization.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.1.0.2 (Nov 25, 2008)

  • [+] (pro) The plug-in is integrated with Cloudmark SpamNet. The control sums of message text and attachments are checked against the online database of spam and phishing messages.
  • [-] Minor bugfixes.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.0.1.2 (Oct 1, 2008)

  • Added German, Czech and Slovak translations.
  • (pro) Fixed an incompatibility with some antiviruses.
  • (pro) Minor bugfixes and optimization in the code for checking DNSBL and URIBL services.
  • Fixed a bug, causing crashes in some cases during searching for a substring in Filtering log.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.0.0.9 (Sep 16, 2008)

  • [-] Fixed an incompatibility with Windows 2000
  • [-] Fixed a bug in automatic clearing of the Filtering log
  • [*] Checking the sender IP via DNSBL services works faster
  • [*] Added Galician translation

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 3.0.0.7 (Sep 7, 2008)

  • [-] (pro) Fixed several issues with checking spam by headers.
  • [+] It is possible to change the colors in filtering log.
  • [*] Added several translations.
  • [*] Internal optimization and minor bugfixes.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 2.8.1.1 (Apr 5, 2008)

  • Fixed the incompatibility with AdMuncher and the latest versions of antiviruses: NOD32, McAfee, Panda.
  • The following methods are improved: filtering spam by the presence of linked images, antiphishing filter.
  • Auto-training on outgoing messages didn't work in TheBat 4.x.
  • [-] Internal bugfixes and optimization.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 2.7.1.7 (Feb 8, 2008)

  • [-] (pro) Fixed the incompatibility with TheBat 4.0.0.22
  • [*] Minor internal optimization.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 2.7.1.5 (Nov 7, 2007)

  • The speed of classifying messages is improved.
  • The Status column values in Filtering Log are sorted by the numerical value of spam ratio.
  • The plug-in assigns the name "#untrusted#" for the mailing list identifier (List-Id) in Friends list after marking as spam a message with the same List-Id. The messages from untrusted mailing lists are classified using the full set of antispam methods.
  • The plug-in didn't check the rule names for duplicates during importing rules from xml.
  • Some messages downloaded from MAPI accounts were parsed incorrectly.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 2.7.1.5 (Nov 7, 2007)

  • [*] The speed of classifying messages is improved.
  • [*] The Status column values in Filtering Log are sorted by the numerical value of spam ratio.
  • [ ] The plug-in assigns the name "#untrusted#" for the mailing list identifier (List-Id) in Friends list after marking as spam a message with the same List-Id. The messages from untrusted mailing lists are classified using the full set of antispam methods.
  • [-] The plug-in didn't check the rule names for duplicates during importing rules from xml.
  • [-] Some messages downloaded from MAPI accounts were parsed incorrectly.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 2.7.1.1 (Oct 20, 2007)

  • The plug-in uses List-Id header value instead of From during classifying the mailing list messages. The email addresses are not extracted from the body of mailing list messages, and List-Id field value is used for updating white and black lists of email addresses.
  • The switching to testing mode works faster.
  • (pro) The white rules were not used if a message was recognized as spam by anti-phishing filter or by attachment rules.
  • (pro) Some messages with attachments became corrupted after filtering.
  • (pro) The file size limit was not used during filtering the attachments.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 2.6.1.5 (Oct 5, 2007)

  • [*] The plug-in executable is signed for compatibility with the future versions of TheBat and Voyager.
  • [-] The odd spaces were added sometimes to large message subjects during classifying the messages.
  • [-] (pro) The errors occurred on automatic creation of a spam folder for some restricted IMAP accounts.
  • [-] (pro) The delays during classifying small messages via IMAP are eliminated.
  • [*] (pro) The plug-in prevents creating new accounts after changing IP address of the listed domain.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 2.6.0.9 (Aug 26, 2007)

  • [*] Periodical auto-save is added for the Filtering Log.
  • [*] The compatibility issues with Panda, DrWeb and other programs filtering mail connections are eliminated.
  • [-] The filtering by headers worked improperly with disabled flag "Store the copies of messages deleted by headers on the server, for allowing undeleting the false positives".
  • [*] The plug-in adds "Received: for " to the message headers automatically for non-SSL POP3 accounts, where mailbox@domain - is the mailbox address from POP3 account settings in plug-in.
  • [*] Minor internal optimization and bugfixes.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 2.6.0.7 (Aug 13, 2007)

  • [*] The messages containing large HTML body with many hyperlinks are filtered faster.
  • [-] False positives are eliminated for the rules containing conditions with negation flag.
  • [-] Unexpected breaks of connections during filtering headers are handled more correctly.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 2.6.0.7 (Aug 13, 2007)

  • The messages containing large HTML body with many hyperlinks are filtered faster.
  • False positives are eliminated for the rules containing conditions with negation flag.
  • Unexpected breaks of connections during filtering headers are handled more correctly.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 2.6.0.5 (Aug 9, 2007)

  • [-] The filtering worked slowly when the whitelist contains items with several subsequent symbols '*'. The new version removes the odd symbols '*' automatically.
  • [*] The option "Execute DNSBL checks for headers only" is removed from DNSBL dialog. The new version allows blocking spam by IP address during checking headers only.
  • [-] Aborting checking headers may lead to loosing the stored spam, previously marked as deleted by headers.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 2.6.0.1 (Jul 28, 2007)

  • The rule conditions for message headers are now applied to attachment headers too.
  • The subsystem for blocking spam by the checksum of attachments now works for the message text/html body too.
  • The messages, which contain recipient email address in sender email address, are not recognized as non-spam by the whitelist and classified using full message contents.
  • The updated classification algorithm is less sensitive to training mistakes.
  • The better protection from unexpected shutdowns is implemented for the configuration files.
  • Minor UI bugs fixed.
  • The name of attachment is displayed in filtering log for the messages blocked by attachment checksum.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 2.5.0.3 (Jun 26, 2007)

  • There was a problem with checking POP3 accounts on some servers.
  • Added Dutch translation.
  • The manual is updated.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 2.0.3 (Mar 13, 2007)

  • Fixed an incompartibility with NOD32
  • Minor UI enhancements
  • Added Czech translation
  • Updated Polish, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian translations

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 1.8 Beta 5 (Jan 5, 2007)

  • The rule conditions didn�t work for the custom headers with the capital letters in content.
  • The plug-in was hanging on downloading messages from some servers.
  • The support of 24*24 mode is added for the toolbar buttons.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 1.7 Beta 2 (Oct 24, 2006)

  • [ ] A toolbar is added to TheBat UI
  • It is possible to minimize to tray the status window displayed during checking headers
  • The performance of classification is increased
  • Fixed: TheBat was hanging on call to MAPILogon, if it was set as a default Simple MAPI handler
  • Fixed: The problem with checking headers on some RFC-incompatible servers was fixed
  • Fixed: It was impossible to change the minimum size of attachments for exceptions
  • The new installer supports all available localizations

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 1.6.7.2 (Sep 16, 2006)

  • Fixed: The rules with a first capital letter in pattern didn't work
  • Fixed: The details page in Log displayed info on wrong items after sorting the list by any column except Time

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 1.6.3 (Aug 6, 2006)

  • New macros are added.
  • A bug in protection subsystem with cutting a trial period is fixed.
  • It was impossible to add manually non-english strings as stop-words (for filtering messages by keywords in subjects).
  • All stop-words are now displayed in the corresponding list, independently from their spam ratio.
  • The default set of DNSBL services is reduces for improving the performance of checking message headers.
  • Minor UI changes.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 1.6.2 (Aug 4, 2006)

  • Several instances of the plug-in configuration window may appear on pressing the correspondent shortcut key several times.
  • Minor UI changes.

New in AntispamSniper for The Bat! and Voyager 1.5 Beta (Jun 10, 2006)

  • The plug-in is now able to delete spam on the server by headers.
  • DNSBL checking feature is added.
  • A list of Black words for deleting spam by keywords in subject is added.
  • The plug-in is optionally learning the outgoing messages as non-spam
  • automatically.
  • It is possible to disable filtering for some servers using the filtering
  • modes of accounts.
  • - Anti-phishing rules can now be turned off properly.