The Bat! Home Edition Changelog

What's new in The Bat! Home Edition 11.1

Apr 2, 2024

New features:
Indexing process indication is now displayed at the main window's status bar
Improvements:
New index file names (Index.db -> TBIndex.db in the root of the mail data folder) to ensure correct database structure
Automatic conversation view update when new messages arrive in the conversation
Optimization of message base indexing algorithms
Speed up indexer database initialization
Improved performance of database updates during runtime
Skip indexer for virtual folders as not necessary in the current model
Remove possible delays on editor startup due to overcrowded system’s recent documents folder
Fixes:
Fix for SmartSpace reading page height in HTML (classic preview pane)
Messages viewed in conversation view could become read despite account settings
The issue which caused the "Invalid class typecast" error message in summary view has been resolved

New in The Bat! Home Edition 11.0.4.14 Beta (Mar 28, 2024)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 11.0.4.12 Beta (Mar 19, 2024)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 11.0.4.10 Beta (Mar 15, 2024)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 11.0.4.7 Beta (Mar 5, 2024)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 11.0.4.6 (Feb 27, 2024)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 11.0.4.5 (Feb 22, 2024)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 11.0.4.5 Beta (Feb 21, 2024)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 11.0.4.4 Beta (Feb 14, 2024)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 11.0.4.1 (Feb 1, 2024)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 11.0.4 (Jan 26, 2024)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 11.0.3.4 (Jan 26, 2024)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 11.0.3.1 (Jan 12, 2024)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 11.0.3 (Jan 4, 2024)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 11.0.2 (Dec 26, 2023)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 11.0 (Dec 21, 2023)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.5.3.2 (Dec 12, 2023)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.5.3 (Dec 8, 2023)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.5.2 (Oct 31, 2023)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.5.1 (Oct 17, 2023)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.4.0.17 Beta (Oct 1, 2023)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.4.0.16 Beta (Sep 20, 2023)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.4.0.15 Beta (Sep 18, 2023)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.4.0.9 Beta (Jul 7, 2023)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.4.0.6 Beta (Jul 4, 2023)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.4.0.1 (Jun 7, 2023)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.4 (May 30, 2023)

Features:
Calendar Manager
Synchronization with Google Calendar
List of recently created/modified files and source folders in the drop-down of the "Attach a file" button in the message editor window
Improvements:
/NoDirectX command line parameter to disable the usage of DirectX in PureHTML editor
Fixes:
In certain cases, the new interface toolbars were not saved on exiting the program
The font size is now preserved when replying to an HTML-message
Pressing the Tab key in the message text area now works as expected
Replying to an email using the PureHTML format caused infinite Access Violation error messages
Wrong email addresses were inserted as additional emails in a contact's properties
It was impossible to delete secondary email address in a contact's properties
In was not possible to overwrite any email address in a contact's properties
The sorting of contacts in the new address book interface was wrong
Zoom in/out buttons in plain text switched the message format to PureHTML
"Zoom in" in the message editor did not enlarge the row height
The path for the Synchronize operation required a trailing backslash for the operation to start
Issues with Calculate command in HTML editors were fixed
Some iCalendar files could cause AV errors
Alt+Insert (Paste as quotation) was not working properly in both HTML editors
Weekly/daily repeating events were starting one day later
Time zone issues when importing from iCalendar files
Images copied from MS Word were not pasted properly in HTML editors
Automatic replies were losing the original HTML formatting
It was impossible to deselect text in the PureHTML editor
The issue which caused the Access Violation and "A component named FolderEditor already exists" error messages on opening folder properties has been resolved
Missing indication on the current message format - plain text or HTML
"Paste as plain text" doesn't work both in RichText and in PureHTML
"Invalid image. Error" upon replying to messages with certain image files
RichText includes the background color in HTML-messages depending on the interface theme

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.4 Beta (May 30, 2023)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.3.3.3 (Jan 16, 2023)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.3.3 (Dec 22, 2022)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.3.2 (Oct 31, 2022)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.3 (Oct 27, 2022)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.2 (Sep 30, 2022)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.1.0.4 Beta (Sep 22, 2022)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.1.0.2 Beta (Aug 13, 2022)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.1 (Jun 29, 2022)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.0.10 (May 31, 2022)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.0.9 (May 26, 2022)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.0.8 (May 25, 2022)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.0.6 (May 25, 2022)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.0.5 (May 19, 2022)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 10.0.1 (Apr 28, 2022)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.5.1 (Jan 26, 2022)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.5 (Dec 21, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.5 Beta (Dec 20, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.4.5.2 Beta (Dec 6, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.4.5 (Oct 27, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.4.4.3 Beta (Oct 16, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.4.4.1 Beta (Oct 2, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.4.4 (Aug 23, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.4.3.5 Beta (Aug 20, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.4.3.3 Beta (Aug 8, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.4.3.2 Beta (Aug 6, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.4.3 (Aug 4, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.4.2.7 Beta (Jul 21, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.4.2.2 Beta (Jul 14, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.4.1 (Jul 9, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.4.0 (Jul 5, 2021)

New features:
New HTML Editor
Automatic message format switch from plain text to HTML when a style is used or a picture is inserted
New option to edit HTML code in the editor in the “Utilities -> Edit HTML source code” menu
New HTML Table properties dialog
Snooze function for MailTicker messages
The "Reset position" button in the settings of MailTicker
Explicit option to export messages using UTF-8 in the Sorting Office
New option "Display HTML-related message parts as attachments" for the message viewer
%CHARSET="...." macro for text message export in the Sorting Office
%Replace( pattern, replaceWith, text ) macro to automatically replace all occurrences of with in the
%ReplaceRegExp( patternRegExp, replaceWith, text [, subPattNo] ) macro to automatically replace all occurrences matching with with in the is an optional parameter specifying the exact subpattern to be replaced
%REGEXP( pattern, sample, subPatternNo ) macro for simplified substitution on %SetPattRegexp=...%RegexpBlindMatch=...%SubPatt=... combination
(#000825) %SOURCE or %SOURCE=Charset macro to include original message source (using optional character set) into the text
Improvements:
The focus now moves to the first occurrence when using the “Find” command in the HTML viewer
The “Message -> Test filters” command is available again in the message list popup menu
The "Change protocol" button is removed from the account settings
The quoted text in sent HTML-messages is now stored within blockquote tags in the source code
UTF-8 is now the default character set for text message export filter action
Files with .MSG and .EML extensions are now treated as message/RFC822 ignoring declared MIME type
“Insert Smiley” is replaced by “Insert Emoji”
Fixes:
Draft flag was not set when a non-draft message was open from the “Outbox” folder
Quick reply's “Send” button was active without a text ready to be sent
Ctrl+Enter and Ctrl+Shift+Enter shortcuts could not be used from Quick Reply until first editor's popup menu appearance
Unexpected search box was sometimes visible in an attached message viewer
Text in the “About” window was not displayed under some themes
Closing the app while a picture viewer was open caused Access Violation errors
(#002118) Access Violation errors when a message was printed by a filter action were fixed
Loading of HTML was optimized to prevent eventual viewer crashes

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.3.4.22 Beta (Jun 25, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.3.4.20 Alpha (Jun 23, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.3.4.18 Alpha (Jun 19, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.3.4.0 (Apr 23, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.3.3.0 (Jan 28, 2021)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.3.2.0 (Dec 23, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.3.1.3 Beta (Dec 19, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.3.1.0 (Dec 4, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.3.0.1 (Nov 10, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.5.12 Beta (Nov 7, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.5.10 Beta (Nov 4, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.5.9 Beta (Nov 3, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.5.7 Beta (Nov 1, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.5.3 Beta (Oct 19, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.5 (Oct 3, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.4.1 Beta (Sep 30, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.3.4 Beta (Sep 16, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.3.2 Beta (Sep 10, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.3 (Sep 7, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.3 Beta (Sep 7, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.2.9 Beta (Aug 31, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.2.6 Beta (Aug 21, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.2.1 Beta (Jul 22, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.2 (Jul 15, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.2 Beta (Jul 13, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.1.0 Beta (Jul 1, 2020)

Major improvements:
Toolbars library is reverted to Toolbar 2000 components (GUI became much faster)
HTML rendering engine is set to solely Chromium (CEF library v83.3)
New features:
Offline Mode (menu item "OptionsWork Offline") and detection of the absence of the Internet connection to avoid useless mailbox checking attempts
Automatically generated colors are used for different email addresses in the Summary View
Improvements:
Message List and Folder Tree Tabs can be handled using the mouse wheel (scrolling, pressing and tilting)
Changes in message's memo are automatically saved
By default the newly created IMAP folders are added to the Mail Ticker's watch list
Messages with the empty "To:" fields are saved as draft instead of trying to send them
Changes in the appearance of the items in the message list and account/folder tree view
Added the option for the "old style" tree views and row density under "OptionsPreferencesOther options"
Loading of the external media for HTML messages (to be extended) can be configured under the menu "OptionsPreferencesViewer/EditorHTML Viewer"
(#0002014) Better automatic recognition of URLs with matching brackets
(#0002017) The "Select/Deselect" buttons for folders have been reorganized in the Message Finder (F7) window
Changes in the program's default layout for the first time run
Fixes:
Applying the left alignment by Alt+L in the MicroEd plain text editor called out the system's warning sound
The Escape key did not close the Address Book window
Quick Search was not activated by typing in the message list
HTML viewer popup menu was improperly positioned on high DPI
SmartSpace Reading is now working in any kind of text viewer
(#0001761) The issue which caused cascading error messages when replying to a message still being downloaded has been resolved
(#0001832) Inactive Internal PGP implementation was displayed in the list of available PGP engines
(#0001837) An Access Violation error message appeared in the Address History after deselecting folders for scanning
(#0001844) On the profile layout settings page the text was not displayed until a profile was manually selected
(#0001934) Buttons on the preview pane's header were too wide
(#0001961) Memo Autoview visibility is now maintained between sessions
(#0001967) Memo editor does not close when repeatedly pressing Shift+Ctrl+I
(#0002006) Message list tabs were not restored from Backup
(#0002021) Icons of the program's additional windows were not displayed
(#0002025) Unnecessarily deep nesting for the "Format..." color settings in the message editor has been eliminated
OAuth 2.0 authentication was not working for Mail.Ru
No default address book was created on the first start of the program
Superfluous empty spaces in the main window of the program appeared after restoring the data from the Home directory
Checkboxes on accounts' selection on restoring from Home folder were missing
The window for "Create New Account" appeared in the background and wasn't noticeable to the user

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.0.7 Beta (Jun 27, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.0.5 Beta (Jun 22, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.0.3 Beta (Jun 16, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.0.2 Beta (Jun 15, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.2.0.1 Beta (Jun 12, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.1.18.7 Beta (Jun 8, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.1.18.2 Beta (Apr 25, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.1.18 (Apr 22, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.1.16 (Apr 18, 2020)

New features:
The /TLS_DISABLE_ECDSA command line parameter to disable the cipher suites with Ellipric Curve DSA server certificates
The Bat! QR Code generator now includes an ECI block to indicate theat the text has UTF-8 encoding for those texts that could not be encoded with Kanji or ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) encoding, for example Greek or Cyrillic characters separated by spaces or Unicode emoji characters
Improvements:
In an ECDSA signature, if a hash function had larger digest length (in bits) than the field size (which is not a good practice), The Bat! treated these signatures as invalid. It might lead to invalid ECC certificates, e.g. signed by "sha512ECDSA" algorithm. It might also lead to the following error: "TLS protocol error: Internal error BuildClientKeyExchange". For more information, see section 6.4 of FIPS.186-4 "ECDSA Digital Signature Generation and Verification": it is recommended that the security strength associated with the bit length of n and the security strength of the hash function be the same unless an agreement has been made between participating entities to use a stronger hash function. When the length of the output of the hash function is greater than the bit length of n, then the leftmost n bits of the hash function output block shall be used in any calculation using the hash function output during the generation or verification of a digital signature. A hash function that provides a lower security strength than the security strength associated with the bit length of n ordinarily should not be used, since this would reduce the security strength of the digital signature process to a level no greater than that provided by the hash function
A certificate used to sign a message may also have a "Content Commitment" (non-repudiation) key usage instead of the "Digital Signature"
When determining connection settings (host, port, encryption type) to an unknown mail server, TLS connection settings didn't take priority over plain text ones
File type associations (default programs) can no logner be changed from an application since Windows 8 or later. So, if The Bat! is running under Windows 8 or Windows 10, the relevant elements are not shown in the "Applications" tab. Besides that, the dialog to associate file types no longer appers when The Bat! starts
Fixes:
The Bat! did require "Key Encipherment" or "Key Agreement" in "Key Usage" certificate attribute for TLS even if the certificate was only used to sign ephemeral keys to provide perfect forward secrecy. If a server only supports perfect forward secrecy TLS cipher suites, the certificate used by this server may have no "Key Encipherment" or "Key Agreement" in the "Key Usage" attribute. As a result, the following error is fixed with Google (GMail) servers: "TLS handshake failure. Invalid server certificate (The certificate cannot be used for this purpose)"
The Bat! QR Code generator didn't support Kanji character set
(#0001785) Ctrl+mouse wheel doesn't zoom in/out in the "plain text" editor and "Windows editor"
(#0001942) Search in QuickTemplates causes error on closing the window
(#0001972) The message popup menu does not contain the option "Test filters"
Added showing of secondary shortcuts (if a popup or menu item has two shortcuts)
Fixed toolbar position after loading
Fixed order of items in popup menus
Added possibility to put toolbars to the right of the main menu
Fixed deletion of customized sub-menus (tags, colors, etc.)
Fixed image insert from Browsers into HTML editors
Fixed an error when selecting some images in toolbar customization
The default mail server configuration data was missing in The Bat! in all versions released after June 9th, 2019
Fixed issues with menu images on 175% DPI
S/MIME did not work since v9.1.10
The Bat! did try to change associations from the Preferences dialog even if nothing in this configuration was changed by the user

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.1.14 (Apr 13, 2020)

New features:
The /TLS_DISABLE_ECDSA command line parameter to disable the cipher suites with Ellipric Curve DSA server certificates
The Bat! QR Code generator now includes an ECI block to indicate theat the text has UTF-8 encoding for those texts that could not be encoded with Kanji or ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) encoding, for example Greek or Cyrillic characters separated by spaces or Unicode emoji characters
Improvements:
A certificate used to sign a message may also have a "Content Commitment" (non-repudiation) key usage instead of the "Digital Signature"
When determining connection settings (host, port, encryption type) to an unknown mail server, TLS connection settings didn't take priority over plain text ones
Fixes:
The Bat! did require "Key Encipherment" or "Key Agreement" in "Key Usage" certificate attribute for TLS even if the certificate was only used to sign ephemeral keys to provide perfect forward secrecy. If a server only supports perfect forward secrecy TLS cipher suites, the certificate used by this server may have no "Key Encipherment" or "Key Agreement" in the "Key Usage" attribute. As a result, the following error is fixed with Google (GMail) servers: "TLS handshake failure. Invalid server certificate (The certificate cannot be used for this purpose)"
The Bat! QR Code generator didn't support Kanji character set
(#0001785) Ctrl+mouse wheel doesn't zoom in/out in the "plain text" editor and "Windows editor"
(#0001942) Search in QuickTemplates causes error on closing the window
(#0001972) The message popup menu does not contain the option "Test filters"
Added showing of secondary shortcuts (if a popup or menu item has two shortcuts)
Fixed toolbar position after loading
Fixed order of items in popup menus
Added possibility to put toolbars to the right of the main menu
Fixed deletion of customized sub-menus (tags, colors, etc.)
Fixed image insert from Browsers into HTML editors
Fixed an error when selecting some images in toolbar customization
The default mail server configuration data was missing in The Bat! in all versions released after June 9th, 2019
Fixed issues with menu images on 175% DPI

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.1.12 (Apr 9, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.1.10 (Apr 9, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.6.1.10 Beta (Apr 8, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.6.1.4 Beta (Apr 4, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.6.1.3 Beta (Mar 26, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.1.6 (Mar 10, 2020)

New features:
TLS AEAD AES-GCM cipher suites: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
Added icons for the commands (menu items, toolbar buttons) that did not have icons
Added SHA-384 cipher suites for TLS: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384 & TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
"/CRC32_CCITT_BENCHMARK" and "/CRC32_CASTAGNOLI_BENCHMARK" command-line parameters to calculate performance of CRC32 implementation used by The Bat!
New image for an account (mail box) in the folder tree
Improvements:
Enabled the following ciphers suite for TLS: TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256 cipher suite (it was disabled because it had largest AES key size, but DHE which is slower than ECDHE)
Fixes:
ECDHE TLS ciphers didn't work on TLS version 1.0 (but did work on TLS version 1.1 and later)
Added Shortcuts Customization (it was missing since version 9.0)
MailTicker font style was incorrectly saved
Added correct categories in menu customization
Fixed Favorites Menu (there was an issue since version 9.0)
A memory leak is fixed (the TGoogleAuthTask object was not released)
Fixed AV in customizing menus (64bit-only)
Link to folder missing from the "Information" tab
Message Dispatcher is not terminated
The Sorting Office option "Do not preserve header of the original messages" is always applied regardless of the settings
Can't change font styles of selected text
Editor: Menu-Item "Format" contains an unnecessary item divider (it was an issue since version 9.0)
"Esc" does not close the "Address Book", "View Message Source", "Print Preview" and "Enter Registration Key" windows
"Cannot remove shell notification icon" error popup during shutdown
After language change, a button was missing (it was an issue since version 9.0)
Clicking an URL in HTML message opens two browsers
Access Violation on "OK" in the Print Setup Dialog
The items in the main menu "Workspace -> Show Connection Centre" are not mutually exclusive (it was an issue since version 9.0)
Access Violation errors in print setup dialog and cancelling password dialog
Message tags are not displayed in the column "Tags"
Alternative Deletion shortcut (Shift+Delete key combination) did not work in v9.1
Fixed secondary shortcuts. For example, if a single command had two shortcuts (primary and secondary), only primary worked. This affected the following shortcuts: Move to Next Unread (Ctrl+Right,Ctrl+Alt+Right) & Move Previos Unread (Ctrl+Left,Ctrl+Alt+Left)
Fixed "invalid class typecast" error when using RC4 (stream) cipher in TLS (introduced in v9.1)
If the option "Do not preserve header of the original messages" is turned off for the "Create formatted message" action in the Sorting Office, then the RFC-822 headers of original message are added as an attachment (with Content-type "text/rfc822-headers", as described in RFC-1892) to the newly created message

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.1.4 Beta (Mar 4, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.1.2 Beta (Mar 4, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.1 (Mar 2, 2020)

New features:
TLS AEAD AES-GCM cipher suites: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
Added icons for the commands (menu items, toolbar buttons) that did not have icons
Added SHA-384 cipher suites for TLS: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384 & TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
"/CRC32_CCITT_BENCHMARK" and "/CRC32_CASTAGNOLI_BENCHMARK" command-line parameters to calculate performance of CRC32 implementation used by The Bat!
Improvements:
Enabled the following ciphers suite for TLS: TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256 cipher suite (it was disabled because it had largest AES key size, but DHE which is slower than ECDHE)
Fixes:
ECDHE TLS ciphers didn't work on TLS version 1.0 (but did work on TLS version 1.1 and later)
Added Shortcuts Customization (it was missing since version 9.0)
MailTicker font style was incorrectly saved
Added correct categories in menu customization
Fixed Favorites Menu (there was an issue since version 9.0)
A memory leak is fixed (the TGoogleAuthTask object was not released)
Fixed AV in customizing menus (64bit-only)
(#0000329) Link to folder missing from the "Information" tab
(#0001736) Message Dispatcher is not terminated
(#0001811) The Sorting Office option "Do not preserve header of the original messages" is always applied regardless of the settings
(#0001873) Can't change font styles of selected text
(#0001874) Editor: Menu-Item "Format" contains an unnecessary item divider (it was an issue since version 9.0)
(#0001896) "Esc" does not close the "Address Book", "View Message Source", "Print Preview" and "Enter Registration Key" windows
(#0001917) "Cannot remove shell notification icon" error popup during shutdown
(#0001923) After language change, a button was missing (it was an issue since version 9.0)
(#0001930) Clicking an URL in HTML message opens two browsers
(#0001936) Access Violation on "OK" in the Print Setup Dialog
(#0001937) The items in the main menu "Workspace -> Show Connection Centre" are not mutually exclusive (it was an issue since version 9.0)
(#0001941) Access Violation errors in print setup dialog and cancelling password dialog
(#0001953) Message tags are not displayed in the column "Tags"

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.0.16.2 Beta (Jan 12, 2020)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.0.16 Christmas edition (Dec 24, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.0.8.2 Beta (Dec 10, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.0.8.1 Beta (Dec 5, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.0.6.1 Beta (Dec 1, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.0.6 (Nov 27, 2019)

Major improvements:
New interface controls in the main window of the program and in the editor window. DevExpress controls are used instead of TB2K/TBX/SpTBX
New way of handling the user interface layout configuration. Also, there is a new file - "userdef.xml", instead of "tbuser.def" previously used
New features:
Possibility of recording and logging of the time it takes to open the following configuration dialogs: "Account Properties", "Folder Properties", "Sorting Office/Filters", and the following windows: message editor, the folder view. The time is measured if the following command-line parameters are used to run The Bat!: "/BENCHMARK_STARTUP_TIME" and/or "/STARTUP_TIMING_LOG". With the "/STARTUP_TIMING_LOG" option only, the results will only be saved to the ex_log.file, while with "/BENCHMARK_STARTUP_TIME" they will be displayed on the screen as a message dialog
Improvements:
Updated spell checker dictionaries (Hunspell) for the following languages: Danish, Dutch, English (British), English (U.S.), French, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Spanish, Swedish
Removed PGP internal implementation (RFC-1991) from The Bat!
There is now a random delay before sending the TLS alert code to a remote computer in order to prevent eventual timing attacks
The Preferences dialog now displays an hourglass when it opens
Fixes:
(#0000427) Tab order was wrong in some dialogs, e.g. in the "Create Mail Filter" dialog box
(#0001327) Access Violation errors on exit have been eliminated
(#0001545) Email was added twice to the "To:" line if the address entry in the address book contained multiple addresses
(#0001662) Incorrect rendering of certain HTML messages has been resolved
(#0001718) An issue with an option during the address book import has been resolved
(#0001719) After adding an account using the mail account assistant the The Bat! main window did not show up
(#0001755) Address Viewer incorrectly displayed the email address of the sender
(#0001780) 64-bit version of The Bat! silently closed upon trying to send a PGP-signed message
(#0001785) Ctrl+mouse wheel did not zoom in/out in plain text editors
Fixed Access Violation errors which could sometimes happen infrequently, and which were caused by improper CPU thread handling, especially when exiting The Bat!
Fixed errors when The Bat! process could hang on exit and stay in the Task Manager while exiting The Bat! when active connections to RSS feeds were in progress
Fixed an issue when all tags became ignored
Fixed memory leaks
Image Crop did not work in message templates

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.0.4 Beta (Nov 26, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.0.0.24 Beta (Nov 20, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.0.0.20 Alpha (Nov 15, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 9.0.0.1 Alpha (Oct 1, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.8.9 (Jun 13, 2019)

New features:
Possibility to change the color of the fonts in Mail Ticker
Image Crop in message editor and templates
The OAuth window got a label displaying the requested URL
Improvements:
"Quick Search" has been expanded to also search in the "Tags" column
Slightly faster loading of IMAP messages from folders of 50K messages or more
Fixes:
The issue which prevented printing with Landscape orientation has been resolved
Opening large images resulted in "Out of memory" error
The macro %TEXT produced different results for replies and forwards
"Quick Reply" used HTML-formatting instead of plain text
Image download button was hidden in some cases
Fixed truncated strings in Italian in global Preferences
Fixed truncated strings in many languages in the the Multi-SMTP dialog
Fixed truncated strings in the Address Book Duplicate Search Wizard
Fixed truncated strings in the Message Tags dialog
Fixed cascades of "Access Violation" and "Runtime error 231" while replying to not entirely downloaded messages via Ctrl+Enter
Images were not shown in the right size in HTML-messages
The system's HTML viewer rendered some messages as huge ones
Fixed truncated strings in the Greek interface
Duplicate accelerators on "Message..." menu have been removed
Shift+Ctrl+V inserted the text from the clipboard in the "Subject" twice
On 4K (UHD) monitors, the Address Book didn't open properly and finally displayed the error message "Out of system resources"
User-defined tags were unavailable in the Sorting Office filters
Some HTML messages, like those from PayPal, were not entirely rendered by the internal HTML viewer
The home and work phone number items were lost from the Address Book contacts after synchronizing with Google Contacts
Fixed "Access violation" error message on pasting from MS Excel
Embedded images in HTML messages in some cases got narrower while replying
Deleted tags still appeared in the message list popup menu
iCloud Contacts synchronization did not work
Fixed an Access Violation error that could occasionally happen on The Bat! startup when using Google OAuth authentication
Resolved the issue of adding non translated tags to tags menu
Some minor "Access Violation" errors which could happen on program exit have been resolved

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.8.9.5 Alpha (Jun 11, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.8.9 Beta (Jun 5, 2019)

Image Crop in message editor and templates
Options to change the color of the fonts in Mail Ticker have been added
Slightly faster loading messages from folders of 50K messages or more on IMAP
"Quick Search" has been expanded to also search in the "Tags" column
The issue which prevented printing with Landscape orientation has been resolved
Opening large images resulted in "Out of memory" error
The macro %TEXT produced different results for replies and forwards
"Quick Reply" used HTML-formatting instead of plain text
Image download button was hidden in some cases
Truncated translation in Italian in global Preferences have been eliminated
Truncated strings in the MultiSMTP dialog have been eliminated
More space for translation on checkboxes of the Address Book Duplicate Search Wizard has been added
Truncated strings in the Message Tags dialog have been eliminated
Cascades of "Access Violation" and "Runtime error 231" while replying to not entirely downloaded messages via Ctrl+Enter
Images were not shown in the right size in HTML-messages
The system's HTML viewer rendered some messages huge
Truncated strings with Greek interface have been eliminated
Duplicate accelerators on "Message..." menu have been removed
Shift+Ctrl+V inserted the text from the clipboard in the "Subject" twice
Address book didn't open and the error message "Out of system resources" appeared
User-defined tags were unavailable in the Sorting Office filters
HTML messages from PayPal were not entirely rendered by the internal HTML viewer
Contacts lost home and work phone numbers after synchronizing with Google Contacts
"Access violation" error message on pasting from MS Excel has been resolved
Embedded images in HTML messages in some cases got narrower while replying
Deleted tags still appeared in the message list popup menu
iCloud Contacts synchronization did not work
An issue of adding non translated tags to tags menu has been resolved
Fixed an Access Violation error that could occasionally happen on The Bat! startup when using Google OAuth authentication
Some minor "Access Violation" errors which could happen on program exit have been resolved
OAuth a label displaying the requested URL has been added

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.8.2.6 Beta (May 7, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.8.2.5 Beta (Apr 3, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.8.2.4 Beta (Apr 1, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.8.2.3 Beta (Mar 11, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.8.2 (Feb 22, 2019)

New features:
An additional button to deselect "Trash" folders across all accounts in the Message Finder
Users of the On-The-Fly-Encryption mode can specify /DECRYPT_FILE_OTFE command line parameter to decrypt a particular file and save it to disk
Improvements:
Contents of the "Organization" header line is not automatically appended in parenthesis to the sender's address header line on display if the contents of the Organization has a "@" character or a parenthesis or an angle bracket
The Bat! ignores message header address line comments that contain "@" characters
Fixes:
0000738: Google contact synchronization did not work
0001561: Inserting Polish character "ą" cleared the text of messages
0001625: Ctrl+V didn't move messages to folders starting with the letter "O"
0001628: Assigned colors groups were not shown in the Sorting Office menu
0001629: Wrong code in HTML messages caused invisible messages
0001632: Viewer/editor profiles ignored the background color settings until another profile was selected
0001633: List settings were saved and restored incorrectly when switching between Normal and HiDPI displays: The new version stores different sizes separately to prevent wrong sizing in the older versions
0001635: Viewer profile settings were not applied right after changing the settings in options
0001637: Viewer/editor profiles were not retained after re-starting the program
0001638: Images from web-site copied to clipboard are not pasted into the HTML-editor: Added possibility to copy text with images from MS Office. For the moment to copy text with images from web page first copy it to Word and then copy to The Bat!
0001640: The internal HTML viewer failed to display certain messages
0001645: "Cannot change Visible in OnShow or OnHide" error message at every startup has been resolved
0001647: "Access Violation" error message appeared while replying to an email because of the tags
0001650: "Invalid container data (offsets)" error message appeared upon editing the Sorting Office filters
0001652: Find duplicates wizard in address book was not entirely displayed under lower resolutions
0001654: Color selector: Predefined color set and Windows UI colors were missing. More colors accessible via keyboard
0001656: There were truncated options in the settings of common folders
0001666: If email addresses were erroneously separated by spaces (not by comas or semicolons) in an address line, The Bat! displayed only the first one
0001668: Three High-DPI issues with color selector have been resolved
0001674: Message Finder didn't find anything in local (non-IMAP4) folders when search scope was "Any part"; and there is no way to stop the search process
0001676: Unicode symbols were improperly rendered in the message list
0001683: Wrong minute in the time of the message creation - 1 second was lost
Embedded images in messages bodies grew in size on each reply on high DPI monitors (original issue 0001178)
Fixed a "classname mismatch" error (TID#80840)
Fixed sizes of Tag and Duplicates wizards for HiDPI monitors
Issue when panel sizes were lost when resolution of display changed by several pixels
The Bat! crashed on startup with "Access violation" error message
Fixed issue when all tags become ignored

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.8.0.2 Beta (Feb 22, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.8 Beta (Feb 12, 2019)

An additional button to deselect "Trash" folders across all accounts in the Message Finder
Users of the On-The-Fly-Encryption mode can specify /DECRYPT_FILE_OTFE command line parameter to decrypt a particular file and save it to disk
Contents of the "Organization" header line is not automatically appended in parenthesis to the sender's address header line on display if the contents of the Organization has a "@" character or a parenthesis or an angle bracket
The Bat! ignores message header address line comments that contain "@" characters
Google contact synchronization did not work
Inserting Polish character "a" (with a tail) cleared the text of messages
Ctrl+V didn't move messages to folders starting with the letter "O"
Assigned colors groups were not shown in the Sorting Office menu
Wrong code in HTML messages caused invisible messages
Viewer/editor profiles ignored the background color settings until another profile was selected
List settings were saved and restored incorrectly when switching between Normal and HiDPI displays The new version stores different sizes separately to prevent wrong sizing in the older versions
Viewer profile settings were not applied right after changing the settings in options
Viewer/editor profiles were not retained after re-starting the program
Images from web-site copied to clipboard are not pasted into the HTML-editor Added possibility to copy text with images from MS Office. For the moment to copy text with images from web page first copy it to Word and then copy to The Bat!
The internal HTML viewer failed to display certain messages
"Cannot change Visible in OnShow or OnHide" error message at every startup has been resolved
"Access Violation" error message appeared while replying to an email because of the tags
"Invalid container data (offsets)" error message appeared upon editing the Sorting Office filters
Find duplicates wizard in address book was not entirely displayed under lower resolutions
Color selector Predefined color set and Windows UI colors were missing. More colors accessible via keyboard
There were truncated options in the settings of common folders
If email addresses were erroneously separated by spaces (not by comas or semicolons) in an address line, The Bat! displayed only the first one
Three High-DPI issues with color selector have been resolved
Message Finder didn't find anything in local (non-IMAP4) folders when search scope was "Any part"; and there is no way to stop the search process
Unicode symbols were improperly rendered in the message list
Wrong minute in the time of the message creation - 1 second was lost
Embedded images in messages bodies grew in size on each reply on high DPI monitors (original issue 0001178)
Fixed a "classname mismatch" error (TID#80840)
Fixed sizes of Tag and Duplicates wizards for HiDPI monitors
Issue when panel sizes were lost when resolution of display changed by several pixels
The Bat! crashed on startup with "Access violation" error message

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.7.0.17 Beta (Feb 11, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.7.0.17 Beta (Feb 10, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.7.0.15 Beta (Feb 8, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.7.0.14 Beta (Feb 1, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.7.0.13 Beta (Jan 29, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.7.0.10 Beta (Jan 26, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.7.0.8 Beta (Jan 22, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.7.0.6 Beta (Jan 21, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.7.0.5 Beta (Jan 20, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.7.0.2 Beta (Jan 18, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.7 / 8.7.0.1 Beta (Jan 8, 2019)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.7 (Dec 23, 2018)

New features
(#0001425) Added wizards to find and manage duplicates in the address book
Improved the handling of items in the messages list. Clicking on the Tags column or Color Group column or the Memo column shows a pop-up menu of available Tags or Colors. Click on the Memo invokes the memo editor. Also added the "Clear All Tags" menu item
New About Screen
Christmas Splash screen uses randomly one of five images
Improvements
Christmas graphics in the about box
(#0001527) Now The Bat! displays a list of restored folders via Shift+Ctrl+Alt+L
Replaced old style Delphi color combo-boxes with user-friendly color selection (palette) controls
Updated the translation resources. At the moment, these change mostly affect Bulgarian user interface language
(#0001585) The text can now be dragged between the fields "CC" "TO" "BCC", etc.
Fixes
(#0001624) No colors of the tabs are displayed in the list of tabs in preferences menu
The Splash Screen showed the "UNREG Edition" suffix after The Bat! product name if the user didn't enter the registration code
Tags Improvement: Added 2 check-boxes to Tags Editor. Fixed press return when adding of new Tag at TagSelected
(#0001631) Splash Screen sometimes doesn't stay for even a second when The Bat! starts in Maximized Window mode
Close Tags work on Threaded-View headers
Tags selector was not resizable
Added default font and color to the Tag editor
(#0001573) Selected folder out of focus/view when using quick search in moving messages
(#0001566) Cell padding is not saved in table properties
When The Bat! uses the Windows HTML viewer (rather then the internal one), it was using MSIE version 5 viewing mode. Now it uses recent viewing modes, i.e. to benefit from IE version 7, 8, 9 and the EDGE
(#0001607) Search for Duplicates Wizard: No email should not be treated as same email
(#0001574) Color groups assigned to messages in "Outbox" are lost after editing the message
(#0001557) Check all Headers for correct click behavior
(#0001605) Search Duplicates Wizard should check only first email of account
(#0001603) Certain type of included HTML-files in message templates are displayed as HTML-code
(#0001604) For the same contact is was possible to open several edit windows at the same time
(#0001578) A figure in brackets appears when an attached .eml file is opened both in POP3 and IMAP4 accounts
(#0001577) Senders in messages within IMAP4 accounts are saved into address books without names
(#0001575) Tags assigned to messages in "Outbox" are lost after editing the message
(#0001580) "Add Sender to Address History" adds the recipient instead
(#0001606) Search in the Address Book did not use "Display Name" of a contact - it should have given the first contact sorted by DisplayName
The Bat! could give an error related to mouse cursor when some application used the screen in the full-screen mode, this error could happen when The Bat! is running in the background and the user has launched a game (e.g. the World of Tanks)
Duplicate Wizard fits small displays
(#0001543) Issues when monitor changes
Address book/Search for Duplicates: Fixed issue with AV when wizard is executed for the second time
(#0001581) Included HTML-files in message templates are displayed as HTML-code
(#0001583) Address book/Search for Duplicates: Start Button is not displayed on UHD-Display with greater than 100% zoom factor
(#0001584) System HTML viewer is unable to open hyperlinks
(#0001586) "Reply to this address" on the header pane doesn't work
Fixed some issues that might cause folders configuration file (ACCOUNT.FLB) to be lost
(#0001560) Color palette is not entirely displayed in table properties under high DPI
(#0001548) Rename labels and change colors selector bug
Fixed some IMAP-related Access-Violation errors
(#0001570) Extended the drop-down menu of the search field in the Message Finder (F7) window
(#0001568) Errors in the advanced filtration of the message list
(#0001564) Memos are lost for draft messages after editing them
(#0001541) Subject with Unicode display has rectangles after selecting
(#0001552) Tag selector form is not updated after tag editing
(#0001558) Used the newest version of the TRichEdit component at the moment - v4.1
(#0001542) Text fields in the QR code generator do not handle the Ctrl+A (select all) hotkey
(#0001543) Issues when monitor changes
Fixed auto hotkey assignment (now if caption has '&' it has priority)
(#0001540) Contacts' Secondary addresses are not used for replying/forwarding
(#0001524) Address book contact's secondary emails are not added if the message is created via a handle or "Pick e-mail addresses" dialog
(#0001539) Memo shown as lines with only one word after reopening
(#0001533) "Custom colors" are not remembered in the HTML-editor and HTML-templates
(#0001522) Tags in Cyrillic get corrupted
(#0001530) Virtual folders are not automatically updated
Fixed painting for Tags and Color Groups
(#0001503) The Shift+Ctrl+V combination inserts a word with the cursor in the middle of it
(#0001529) The option "Remove Empty Lines" does not work in templates
(#0001528) The option "Show/Hide Non-Print Characters" does not work in templates
(#0001531) "Memo" column displays only the first word of the memo text
Table cell border always was 1px
(#0001538) Loss of HTML toolbars after creating/modifying/deleting a Quick Template

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.21 Beta (Dec 18, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.20 Beta (Dec 12, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.19 Beta (Dec 12, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.17 Beta (Dec 11, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.15 Beta (Dec 5, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.14 Beta (Dec 3, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.12 Beta (Nov 26, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.11 Beta (Nov 20, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.10 Beta (Nov 19, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.9 Beta (Nov 13, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.8 Beta (Nov 10, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.7 Beta (Nov 2, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.6 Beta (Oct 23, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.5 Beta (Oct 16, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.3 Beta (Oct 3, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.2 Beta (Sep 18, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6.0.1 Beta (Sep 6, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.6 (Aug 17, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.5.8.5 Alpha (Aug 16, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.5.8.3 Alpha (Aug 8, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.5.8.2 Alpha (Jul 23, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.5.8 (Jul 20, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.5.6.2 Beta (Jul 16, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.5.6 (Jul 8, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.5.2 (Jun 29, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.5.0.3 Beta (Jun 29, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.5.0.2 Beta (Jun 28, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.5.0 (Jun 27, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.4.0.4 Beta (Jun 26, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.4.0.2 Beta (Jun 22, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.4.0 Beta (Jun 22, 2018)

You can now use styles in the HTML editor
The Bat! now splits long IMAP commands (of about 7500 characters or more) into shorter ones. This is needed for IMAP servers (e.g. Zimbra) that don't accept longer commands, e.g. when you move thousands of messages from one folder to another and the messages are not in a sequence. see "Long Command Lines" sections of the following RFCs for more details: RFC-2683, p. 3.2.1.5, RFC-7162, p. 4.
The "/TLS_VERSION_RANGE:0-3" command line parameter to specify lowest and highest SSL/TLS version minor byte number that The Bat! should support. "0" means SSL 3.0, "1" means TLS 1.0, "2" means TLS 1.1 and "3" means "TLS 1.2". For example, to disable SSL 3.0, use "/TLS_VERSION_RANGE:1-3". Another example - to only allow TLS 1.2 - use "/TLS_VERSION_RANGE:3-3"
The "/TLS_DISABLE_PERFECT_FORWARD_SECRECY" command-line parameter
The "/TLS_FORCE_PERFECT_FORWARD_SECRECY" command-line parameter
Support for "Intel SHA extensions" instructions for SHA-1 on CPUs that support it for hardware acceleration of SHA-1. These instructions are introduced on Intel Goldmont microarchitecture processors, e.g. Pentium J4205, Celeron J3455, Atom C3958, etc. These instructions are currently supported for -bit version of The Bat! only.
New command-line parameter /LOG_IA32CPUID to write list of CPU capabilities to the ex_log.txt file.
New command-line parameter (must be specified as a first parameter in order to be accepted, other parameters may follow it): "/SHA1_BENCHMARK". For example, you can run /SHA1_BENCHMARK /NOLOGO /LOG_IA32CPUID
Fixed the "Select Image" in toolbar customization
Added the "Insert Symbol" button on the editor toolbar
Added support for TLS Server Name Indication (SNI) Extension. It is useful when multiple servers are sharing the same IP address. For more information on SNI, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
Added new path macros: %PROGRAMFILES% and %PROGRAMFILESX86%
(#0001454) Toolbar has now drop-down history for the "Copy to folder" and "Move to folder" buttons
"/TEMP:" command line parameter to specify a different temporary folder instead of one specified by %TEMP% environment variable
The Bat! didn?t' notify plugins about an "MainWindowLoaded" event since version 8
Some modifications on PGP internal signature verification
Some fatal errors that prevented The Bat! from starting and were silent now are displayed to the user
If external third-party plugins to The Bat! prevent it from starting successfully, The Bat! restarts, removes all the plugins from the list, and notifies the user about it, creating copies of plugin configuration files
If a Windows API function to resolve host name fails with an Access Violation error or other exception, The Bat! no longer uses that API function
Fixed splash screen labels' transparency
Fixed some memory leaks
Fixed some "access violation" errors which could occur while working with IMAP
Fixed issue with showing some HTML entities (symbols)
Fixed issue with showing some HTML entities (symbols)
Fixed editor toolbars
Fixed a bug in determining system-defined folders
Added quick templates combo on toolbar
(#0001496) Access Violation on closing The Bat! while viewing a message in the internal HTML viewer
(#0001493) Sub-filters didn't correctly handle the "is" operator
(#0001482) Reintroduced: The Bat! v6.8.4 It's not possible to save the changes in the "Insert Hyperlink" window (original issue 0000730)
(#0001481) Reintroduced: Embedded images in messages bodies grow in size on each reply on high DPI monitors (original issue 0001178)
(#0001478) Quick Reply is unusable - Access Violations upon trying to copy, cut, backspace, delete and paste a Quick Template
(#0001476) [WISH] Add the option "Clear formatting", "IncreaseFont", "DecreaseFont" to the HTML-editor
(#0001474) [WISH] Add the option for forwarding types to the drop-down of the "Forward" icon on the main toolbar
(#0001471) Clicking on the email of an account's information page creates a message from the default account
(#0001466) Add buttons "Subscript" and "Superscript" to the HTML editor
(#0001463) Add the button "Strikethrough" to the HTML editor
(#0001461) The recipient's name gets corrupted in the editor window
(#0001460) Shift+Enter for Bullet Points is broken
(#0001415) Wrong "Created" date if "Date:" line is missing in the message headers
(#0000571) Open attachments with the Shift key pressed still displays a warning
(#0000151) Cannot load HTML images under 32-bit (many images with the same URL)
Updated HTML editor component version
The Bat! now tries to call the GetAddrInfoExW function instead of GetAddrInfoExA. Only if GetAddrInfoExW is not available, it falls back to GetAddrInfoExA.
The Bat! is now able to locate GPG4WIN 3.1.1
Optimized CPU thread usage by creating and freeing threads less frequent because of using more threads with a reusable thread pool
If CPU supports SHA extensions, The Bat! will use them for SHA-256 hash.
You can call The Bat! with /SHA256_BENCHMARK command line parameter to figure out whether you CPU supports the extension and what is real gain from using the extensions.

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.32 Beta (Jun 20, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.31 Beta (Jun 19, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.30 Beta (Jun 18, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.29 Beta (Jun 15, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.28 Beta (Jun 13, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.27 Beta (Jun 11, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.26 Beta (Jun 6, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.24 Beta (Jun 5, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.23 Beta (Jun 5, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.22 Beta (Jun 4, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.21 Beta (Jun 2, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.18 Beta (Jun 1, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.17 Beta (May 31, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.16 Beta (May 28, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.14 Beta (May 25, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.13 Beta (May 24, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.11 Beta (May 23, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.10 Beta (May 21, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.6 Beta (May 10, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.5 Beta (May 8, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0.4 Beta (Apr 26, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0 (Mar 23, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.3.0 Beta (Mar 22, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.2.8.9 Beta (Mar 22, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.2.8.7 Beta (Mar 20, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.2.8.6 Beta (Mar 20, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.2.8.3 Beta (Feb 25, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.2.8.2 Beta (Feb 21, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.2.8 (Feb 19, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.2.4 (Jan 23, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.2.0 (Jan 12, 2018)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.0.18 (Dec 27, 2017)

Improvements:
The Download Manager writes additional information to the ex_log.txt file whenever there is an exception inside a WinInet API function call
Added some root certificates used by Google mail servers
Better description for the registration key validity version
More debug messages will be added to the ex_log.txt with /startup_timing_log command line option to figure out why The Bat! hangs at startup
Fixes:
Fixed a "stack overflow" error which could occur when a message got loaded, e.g. on IMAP
Fixed an access violation at startup
Some normal connection state changes were written to the ex_log.txt file
The MailTicker was sometimes grey and didn't move
(#0000493) Column "Tags" in message list cannot be size-adjusted by double click
(#0000557) Copying of Sorting Office filters with hot keys is incomplete
(#0000908) MailTicker goes to background even of the "Always on top" option is enabled
(#0001039) Double-clicking a word with national characters doesn't select it
(#0001103) Table paste not keeping columns widths
(#0001118) Attachments' names in national characters are converted to underscore
(#0001121) Shift+Arrows or Ctrl+Arrows don't work as expected in HTML message preview
(#0001138) Names of the attachments are displayed incorrectly
(#0001281) %CURSOR is ignored in Quick Template
(#0001320) On 4K monitors, the mail ticker is too slow
(#0001346) POP3 Message Dispatcher hangs with an error message
(#0001350) Quick Template is not inserted into Quick Reply
(#0001355) UI elements misplaced in filter conditions
(#0001358) Quick search filter doesn't clear filter on empty filter text
(#0001360) No caption "paste as text" while pasting smiles in the HTML editor
(#0001361) Multiple quotes are rendered too wide
(#0001362) Empty brackets for quick templates in the drop-down menus
(#0001366) Needles confirmation on closing editor window after saving the message via Ctrl+S
(#0001367) Access Violation on pasting smilies
(#0001368) "Undo" and "Redo" work erratically
(#0001369) "Paste as plain text" does not replace the highlighted text

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.0.12 (Nov 27, 2017)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 8.0.10 (Nov 26, 2017)

New features:
32-bit version of The Bat! now works even under very old computers with CPUs that don’t support MMX instruction set. In this case, FPU is used to copy data.
Upgraded the HTML editor. Text formatting has improved (the components render bi-directional text and “exotic” scripts reliably; "justify" alignment and custom character spacing now can be applied to bi-directional text; new paragraph alignment type: "distribute"; distributed paragraphs are similar to justified paragraphs, but space is added between all characters, not between words; this type of alignment is common for Far East languages; customized alignment for the last line of justified and distributed paragraphs; special options for vertical text in table cells - automatic application of vertical fonts and switching column order from right-to-left to left-to-right). There were also visual improvements: the users can define a customized degree of transparency for backgrounds of paragraphs, tables, table cells, text boxes; user interface is compatible with high-DPI display modes
AVX/AVX2/AVX-512 use: if the CPU supports AVX or AVX2 instruction set, 64-bit version of The Bat! will use large, 32-byte YMM registers for faster memory copy and fill, and if the CPU supports AVX-512 instruction set, The Bat! will use even larger, 64-byte ZMM registers for even faster memory copy and fill. These instruction sets are not used by 32-bit version of The Bat!
The Bat! now uses improved multi-threading locking mechanism as a part of the improved memory manager - FastMM4-AVX. The new locking mechanism is much better than the mechanism implemented in the default memory manager which is used by the Delphi compiler
If the CPU supports Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB (ERMS), The Bat! uses this feature for faster memory copy or fill
Faster overall program work gained by removing the "lock" prefix from many instructions that were supposed to provide multi-thread handling. On practice, adding "lock" prefix to an instruction slows it down significantly, and, in most cases, was not needed, e.g. increasing reference counters when assigning strings
(#0001250) Internal program code rewrite regarding to HTML editors that was used in the message editor and HTML template editors
AVX-512 Instruction Set is used, if available, for faster memory copy and fill operations. In order for The Bat! to make use it, a CPU with AVX-512 instruction set is required, for example Intel's Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) and Skylake-X Core i7 and i9 models. Besides that the operating system should also support AVX-512 registers. It is Windows 10 latest update and Windows Server 2016 that support AVX-512
Version 8 Splash Screen
Improvements:
Better thread handling - the program works faster and generates lower number of the Page Faults
Auto-configuration of display fonts on The Bat! first run. On Windows 7 and later, if the fonts are configured in Windows settings to be displayed as Cleartype or if the screen resolution (pixels per inch) is 150% of base DPI or higher, then, on The Bat! first run for this Windows user account after the new installation, the new fonts are automatically configured be used (instead of previously hard-coded values): Consolas and Calibri are now used instead of the old Courier New and Arial. Besides that, during that first run, the default editor font size now accommodates to the screen resolution (pixels per inch): if the current DPI is below 150% of the base DPI (96), the default editor font size is 9pt as before, but for 150%<200% - 10pt, 200%<300% - 11pt, 300% and higher - 12pt.
Auto-substitution of the Courier New on 4K monitors when viewing HTML messages. The details are the following. On Windows 7 and later, with ultra-high-definition (4K) monitors with DPI of 192 and more (>200% of base DPI), if an HTML email arrives with Courier New font defined, and the characters have font size of or between 5 and 28 points, the font is automatically displayed as Consolas. This behavior of substation of Courier New to Consolas is hardcoded and you cannot change it. This only affects screen, not the printer. On printer, when printing HTML with Courier New, this font is always used if defined so in the HTML
Updated Root CA certificates
Improved speed of CRC-32 calculation when the processor does not support CRC32 instruction, but if it does, the speed has increased even more. The Bat! uses CRC-32 algorithm internally in many cases, so the overall program speed has increased as a result
Non-exceptional (normal) situations like IMAP server responses "NO" and "BAD" were added to the exceptions log
Improvements on multi-threaded operation: The Bat! often worked poorly on multi-core processors or multi-CPU computers. The thread operation wasn’t very good thought out in some places. As a result, there were various errors like Access Violation
The Bat! MSI installation package no longer include EWS DLL files. As a result, The Bat! would not support Exchange Web Services (EWS) protocol until you manually download a DLL and store it un the same directory where thebat32.exe/thebat64.exe resides. The EWS DLL download URLs are https://www.ritlabs.com/download/files3/the_bat/ews/ews_x32.zip and https://www.ritlabs.com/download/files3/the_bat/ews/ews_x64.zip
Fixes:
64-bit Simple MAPI handler DLL gave access violation errors
When a QR Code window was already open and then the user has put another window to front and chose to generate a QR code from the menu, the old QR Code window remained in the background so the user had no idea what happened, as if nothing happened. Now the QR Code window will be brought to front in such cases
The QR Code generator didn't save a generated code to file properly. It asked for a list of graphic formats, but in fact only supported BMP. So if you chose, for example, PNG, it saved a BMP into the file with .PNG extension which was incorrect. Now it only offers to save to PNG
If you save generated QR code to file or copy it to clipboard, it didn't scale to the fixed number of times, which might result uneven scaling
If a QR Code window was called from the main window and was open, and you close The Bat!, there was an Access Violation error
If there were a message source view window open and you closed The Bat!, there were an access violation error
The Bat! couldn't gracefully handle improperly specified "charset=unicode", especially in malformed HTML messages
(#0001044) Screen reader did not read the contents of the status bar
(#0001043) Screen reader did not read the text of the tabs
(#0000360) Attributes of messages in threaded message lists were not read
(#0001191) The option "Complete address automatically from" in the message editor did not work
(#0001189) The auto-complete did not offer a suggestion right away as only the suggestion list with no selection appears
(#0001185) The Bat! gave an access violation error on exit when NVDA (www.nvaccess.org) was active on The Bat!
(#0001193) The Bat! crashed upon invoking the address book if JAWS is running
(#0000448) Invalid key handling in the Message Editor address grid (arrows)
(#0001188) The cursor jumped between From/To/CC/BCC/Subject fields using the arrow keys whereas only the Tab key should be applied
(#0001187) The screen reader did not notice that a list of addresses appears in the message editor window
(#0000447) Screen reader improperly read RSS item list
(#0000489) Accessibility Feature: Label for fields in the message creation window was not read properly
(#0000697) Screen reader did not read the names of folders in the "Manage IMAP folders" window
(#0000471) JAWS was speaking after each character when auto-completion in the "To" field was in the "on" state
(#0000699) Screen reader did not read the names of contacts in the Address Book
(#0000151) The Bat! could not down load HTML images under 32-bit if there were a message with many images with the same URL
(#0001207) Space bar sets/removes the check-box on the selected folder and jumps into the search field in Watch for virtual folders
(#0001206) The Up key does not return to the To, CC or BCC field in the message editor
(#0001208) Change of the checkboxes in the Options tab of the Sorting Office did not immediately affect the checkboxes in the left tree
(#0001200) The Bat! crashed while returning to the terminal session
(#0001198) The Bat! hangs on testing outgoing connection in the Create New Account wizard
(#0001205) A screen reader did not speak the check-marks and selected/not selected in the Sorting Office
(#0001178) Embedded images in messages bodies grow in size on each reply on high-DPI (4K) monitors
(#0001219) URLs were incorrectly displayed in the plain text part of messages
(#0001173) Images in HTML templates are resized under high DPI (4K) monitors
(#0001182) "List index out of bounds" error appeared while trying to assign an URL to an image in the HTML template
(#0001228) Sometimes, very rarely, due to a bug, Message Headers got multiplied everywhere - in the Preferences, in the Message Editor, in the viewers. Other configuration items like color groups, etc., could also have been duplicated
The program became faster as a whole because of significant improvements to internal algorithms related to data storage and retrieval (data containers)
The algorithms to process, load and store configuration items, e.g. mail folders, message headers, color groups, etc. (data containers) contain flaws that could lead to data loss
When The Bat! saves images, for example when you edit and HTML message where you have inserted inline images from clipboard, or you have added a photo to an address book entry - The Bat! chooses between the two file formats - PNG and JPG, compressing to both formats and seeing which of the files are smaller. For PNG, compression level from 1 to 9 is selected, based on the dimensions of the image: larger images take faster compression levels, to not produce interface freezes when saving message; for JPG, quality of 85 is always chosen. Previously, The Bat! did always save in JPG with 100 level, which did produce very big files. For photos, JPG process smaller files than PNG, while PNG makes smaller files when there are flat images with just a few colors, like a simple screenshot
(#0001125) Not enough room for "User / Server" localization in the Connection Center window
(#0001201) Truncated options' names on the "Options" tab of the customizer (select the menu item "WorkspaceToolbarsCustomize" and then go to the "Options" tab)
When the Sorting Office window was opened, but The Bat! was in foreground, the Sorting Office window was trying to check the clipboard data used by other programs, which gave errors under Windows 10
(#0000946) The server-side "Sent" folder is lost and re-downloaded on each program start for hotmail.com accounts. Although this was not related solely for Hotmail. The bug was the following: if we had a local folder in the IMAP account with a particular name, and then we've got an IMAP folder with the same name from the server, The Bat! couldn't handle such situations properly, it didn't permanently store the TBB cache file, but instead created a new TBB on each restart of The Bat!, but the old TBB file was abandoned and no longer used, thus occupying the disk space in vain
The Bat! didn't always set the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY for temporary files; setting this attribute increases speed of working with temporary files
The default string encoding in anti-spam plugin changed from Windows-default-for-non-Unicode-programs to UTF-8
Miscellaneous HTML-editor-related fixes
(#0000876) Modal dialog boxes with modal window frame have an icon that overlaps text on Windows XP computers
Fixed html editor dialog translations
(#0001249) A division by zero error in the MicroEd
(#0000798) Editing links in HTML-editor is faulty – the lings got truncated, e.g., after a particular character in the link
(#0001252) Wrong icons in the title bars
(#0001160) Truncated Quick Search options
(#0001232) Column width is not remembered in "Manage IMAP folders"
(#0001162) Untranslatable Quick Search options in the Message Viewer
(#0001081) Macro %QUOTES sets HTML message quotes to uppercase
(#0001181) All caracters of the quoted text are put into the uppercase while replying
(#0001240) The Bat! crashes on selecting an HTML message if the internal HTML viewer is used
(#0001227) Embedded images are rendered too big
(#0000857) If there is not enough free space, no warning appears during the compacting process
A 32-bit version of The Bat! did release memory right when it started (to release memory used by startup data and startup code that was no longer needed) and when was minimized, but the 64-bit version didn't do that properly - vice versa - it tried to reserve 4GB for itself instead. Now the 64-bit version is also doing things properly - it doesn't try to reserve 4GB, but releases memory just when started (once) and each time you minimize it
(#0001183) Message List Tabs cannot be scrolled to the right on high DPI
(#0000873) No confirmation popup for changed mail after closing window
(#0001221) Wrong display of the sender in Address History
(#0001038) The Sorting Office conditions are not vertically aligned (edit/text)
Fixed a EStringListError "List index out of bounds (0)" error in the image download manager
Fixed an access violation error related to IMAP which could happen in many cases, e.g. after sending out a message, etc.
(#0000456) SMTP log does not auto-scroll in the Connection Center
(#0000896) The Bat! does not remember column width in the "Select Quick Template" window
(#0000932) The window "The Bat! Master Password" gets hidden behind other windows
(#0000964) The default fonts in the message editor (The default font Courier New 9 pt is small and pale)
(#0001174) Importing messages from Outlook 2016 fails to include senders' email addresses
(#0001186) Access Violation popups if inspecting message source on IMAP account
(#0001192) Image viewer does not display a PNG file although it is displayed in the preview tab
(#0001199) Ctrl+A doesn't work in Memo in the address book properties
(#0001225) Quick Search tabs do not display separate message lists
(#0001267) Sorting office column widths (in the filters tree - left part of the windows) are not saved
(#0001268) Sorting office default column widths are not proportional to the text
(#0001269) Tip of the day image is not rescaled to accommodate higher resolution
(#0001272) It is not obvious that in the Address Entry, the list of addresses should be separated by CR, not comma
(#0001282) Some HTML messages were incorrectly displayed by The Bat! internal HTML viewer. Element positions were incorrect. Elements were doubled up in some of the messages
(#0001283) Fixed the selection of items (in check/uncheck items in the selection tree view) in some dialogs. For example, the behaviour of these items was OK in the Message Finder (F7) dialog, but wasn't OK in the other dialogs like the "Manage IMAP Folders" dialog. If you open this dialog to manage IMAP folders and try to select/unselect a folder with subfolders, or an account node, the expected behaviour was that the sub-items would also be selected/unselected (checked/unchecked). But his didn't happen - this was especially illogical for the account root nodes - checking/unchecking this node didn't have actually any effect - the account node was checked/unchecked, but the account folders weren't affected at all, so in fact there was absolutely no practical meaning in checking/unchecking the account node of the tree view control in the Manage IMAP folders dialogs. The only exception (that worked correctly) was the Message Finder (F7). Now, behaviour of all this places is identical to the correct behaviour used in the Message Finder
(#0001288) Shortcut editor (when you configure shortcuts for a particular toolbar button) hotkey edit field is not zoomed on 4K
(#0001289) The code was optimized - some generic classes were removed in favour of old-fashioned container classes that didn't use generic source code constructs. The rationale behind this optimization was that the compiler didn't automatically eliminate the duplicated binary code when generics were used to created containers for different classes in such places where the classes were very similar and there was no reason for the compiler to create multiple instances of the binary code that implements the containers like "lists" (TList<> vs Classes.TList). This explosion of the binary code was not cache-friendly, especially not L0/L1 friendly - the program worked slower because of this code size explosion that had no rationale
Fixed a bug that might cause "Access Violation" error in filters when there were multiple connections already working with the filters, for example, when moving sent message from Outbox to Sent folder
Fixed an error when cancelling a folder compression task on exit
Fixed issue with wrong font family in preferencessource viewer
In some dialog windows of The Bat!, font face of some GUI elements was hard-coded (e.g. to Tahoma). Now this hardcoding is removed and the font face of these elements is also dynamic as for all other GUI elements, so it matches exactly the font face of the surrounding GUI elements (controls)
The captions of the "processing folders" status display window were too narrow
There were some bugs in the "View message source" where first or last character of second and subsequent lines was corrupted, which also led to incorrect cursor placement
(#0001293) Image detection for the internal image viewer was incorrect: every type of image was detected as "JPEG". As a result, other images, like "PNG" could not be displayed in the internal image viewer
(#0001214) The "Illegal instruction" error on viewing some JPG files under 32-bit version of The Bat!
(#0001250) Removed duplicate code from HTML templates handling
(#0001296) Paste image into HTML mail from clipboard fails
(#0001297) Pasting copied file in HTML mail fails with exception
(#0001300) An Access Violation error on exit, related to virtual folders
(#0001299) An invalid pointer operation error when dealing with mail messages (copy, move, process by a filter, etc)
(#0001297) Pasting copied file in HTML mail fails with exception
(#0001296) Paste image into HTML mail from clipboard fails
(#0001301) If the user creates a tag with a duplicate name, The Bat! did not start with "Config:1 EStringListError String list does not allow duplicates"-error messages in ex_log.txt during program startup
(#0001172) Embedded images are too narrow in the internal HTML viewer
(#0001231) Phantom window of the action "Add addresses to Address Book" appears in the preview of windows on the task bar
(#0000898) Tip of The Day displays national characters incorrectly. For example, if the "Language for non-Unicode programs" configured in Windows is different from The Bat! interface language, the national characters were incorrectly displayed in the "Tip of The Day"
Fixed an access-violation on exit when the messages were loading via IMAP in progress and the user exits The Bat! at this moment
(#0001316) Impossible to insert smiles to the message
(#0001163) Inserting smileys with ">" or "<" in the plain text editors inserts HTML-code instead
Some fixes of Access Violation errors on IMAP
Long labels didn't wrap in progress dialogues
Program size decreased slightly
(#0000895) Addresses are not added into address book automatically in IMAP accounts
(#0001309) "Insert Hyperlink" interprets command-line arguments as named HTML characters, and thus falsified the HREF
(#0001177) Image files attached to messages are not printed correctly if image width is larger than height but paper (page) width is smaller than its height. If the width of an image is larger than the size of the page, then the right part of the image gets cut while printing/in print preview
(#0001113) External image download control for the system's HTML viewer does not work if set according to The Bat! rules
(#0001234) Sorting Office does not trigger on tags
(#0001113) External image download control for the system's HTML viewer does not work if set according to The Bat! rules
(#0000166) Scheduler did sometimes lose its settings
If the user interface was in such a language to which the website www.ritlabs.com was not translated and the user pressed "Help" button of F1 key, and there were no CHM file of this language present, The Bat! gave an obscure error "Missing context help indxed ...". Now it opens the online help in English
(#0000335: Option "Headers | Show" in Message body is checked, even Header pane is disabled
(#0000443: v6.3.2: Message List for normal email folder shown in the "Summary View"
(#0001324: The log box in the "Account Log" window doesn't scroll properly (as in the Connection Center)
(#0000592) Email is not validated in redesigned "New Account" wizard
(#0001287) Logs are incorrectly scrolled in the message re-filter dialog
(#0001045) IMAP positive test results are not displayed in the New Account Wizard when you click the Test Now Button
(#0000492) Message List cannot be sorted by column "Tags"
Fixed an error that could happen when there were no free space left on disk
(#0000436) Can't change language from HTML editor status bar

New in The Bat! Home Edition 7.4.2 (Dec 23, 2016)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 7.4 (Dec 13, 2016)

New features
Improved speed, reduced CPU use and decreased GUI latency on receiving messages via POP3 and sending via SMTP
/BENCHMARK_STARTUP_TIME displays time passed to start The Bat!, in milliseconds
Improvements
Improved speed of folder checking on MAPI
Improved speed of checking for new message via MAPI in large folders
Splash screen now uses default UI font
Changed CSS length values for "ex" (was 1/1.3 of "em", now 1/2 of "em") and for cm&mm (was 1/2.52 of inch, now 1/2.54 of inch) - in accordance with https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#length-units
If a tbuser.def file is larger than 500K, it is not loaded but renamed to .bak instead
Plugins are now loaded at startup from a separate thread. In The Bat! version 5.0, has performed time-consuming startup routines (like loading of plug-ins, parsing of interface definition files) in parallel threads. The performance boost was noticeable even on old single-core CPUs, because disk and processor operations were running simultaneously; while on multi-core CPUs and multiprocessor systems the boost was even higher because computations could run in parallel, without one affecting another. In version 6.0, plugins weren’t loaded from a separate thread, but from the main thread. This is now fixed and plugin loading is now the same as it was in 5.0.
Optimized IMAP work with multiple connections. When there are several idle connections, and there were need to work with another folder, The Bat! could use a connection that had INBOX selected; now connection with INBOX will only be used if no other connections are available
dlNSpellLanguages is displayed when the user have selected too many languages for spell checking, in this case, the status bar didn't manage to display all the languages and there were a bug that other status bar items were hidden
Fixes
(#0001080) "Message filtered counter" window element partially hidden in Filter Mail
(#0000985) Wrong wrapping in the message boxes
For HTML/plain text and HTML only editor modes after paste a link an unexpected space is added
For Plain Text (Windows) editor mode after paste a link a selection remains
MAPI tasks could give access violations on errors or if the user cancels them
(#0000981) Photo area is too small in address book contact's properties
Fixed "Thread Error: The handle is invalid" on HTML spell checkers
Fixed a bug in spellchecker introduced in version 6.8.0.5 (05-May-2015)
Selected color for even rows was incorrect
Buttons' height in HTML didn't scale
(#0000998) Incorrectly underlined text in the internal HTML viewer
Improved speed of folder checking on MAPI
(#0000963) Truncated line in "OptionsPreferencesMessage List"
Fixed a vertical scroll bar in Preferences | Message List
Items in User Preferences and Address Entry Editor dialog were misaligned
CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) characters were too big and didn't fit the interface sometimes, didn't look good
Fixed the "Address Book photo width/height is mis-sized" error while adding new image for address book on high-resolution monitor
Controls in the Account Properties form were misaligned
Photos in the address book didn't scale properly
The Bat! didn't delete TMP files older than 1 months (since version 5)
(#0000776) If there were more than 2GB of total mail on the server during POP3 retrieval, total received size was displayed incorrect (negative) in the connection center; the word "bytes" was used twice there.
Some dialog elements in the Account Properties, Folder Properties, Address Entry weren't properly aligned or sized with high-DPI settings in various dialogs (on high-definition displays)
The pie chart didn't paint correctly in the connection center
(#0001009) In URLs, the ampersand parameter delimiter gets percent-encoded as &, rather than encoded as an HTML entity
(#0001011) URLs with ampersands are incorrectly opened in the HTML editor after you reopen it
(#0001014) Message list column width and attachments' icon too small (on high-definition displays)
(#0000959) Small check boxes and overlapping buttons in text search (on high-definition displays)
(#0000989) Splitters are not scaled (on high-definition displays)
(#0000960) Not enough room for headers fields on the header pane (on high-definition displays)
(#0001016) Message list nodes are too small (on high-definition displays)
(#0001025) Address book icons truncated on 4K monitors (on high-definition displays)
(#0000555) Toolbar buttons do not scale according to higher DPI setting (on high-definition displays)
(#0001015) The status bar gripper is too small (on high-definition displays)
(#0000967) Account/folder nodes and the respective lines are barely seen (on high-definition displays)
(#0000965) Truncated font size drop-down menu in the HTML editor (on high-definition displays)
(#0000952) Tiny icons in the message editor window (on high-definition displays)
(#0000974) Scheduler Event via Sorting Office action doesn't look good (on high-definition displays)
(#0000979) Narrow default column width in the Maintenance Center (on high-definition displays)
(#0000989) Splitters are not scaled (on high-definition displays)
(#0000951) Tiny font in the account information tab (on high-definition displays)
(#0001028) Attachment panel is too narrow on high-resolution monitors, the icons don't fit, a scroll bar appears
(#0001026) Editor/Viewer header layout uses an old font by default when you run fresh install of The Bat! under modern OS. For example, if you run The Bat! first time under Windows 10, it will set Tahoma 8, but should have set Segoe UI 9 or similar
(#0000982) Issues with QR-Code Generator (on high-definition displays)
Disappearing buttons in dialog Edit Event | Categories on high-definition display (on high-definition displays)
(#00001032) The color of the even row of the quoted text is not purple as it used to be in The Bat! version 1 (purple)
The font didn't get updated in the address headers in the message preview and the open message editor, after the user have changed the font in the Preferences dialog.
(#0001015) The status bar gripper is too small (on high-definition displays)
(#0001033) Changes in look and feel of the nodes and lines in the message list and folder tree
The text in the splash screen was truncated under 300% DPI or more (on high-definition displays)
High-contrast themes with large dpi (300% or more) didn't draw enlarged tree node glyph (plus/minus sign in a square), it was very small and not scaled (on high-definition displays)
(#0000979) Narrow default column width in the Maintenance Center (on high-definition displays)
Splitters didn't use system-defined colors, used a fixed color instead that ignored color schemes
For certain widths of the header columns, in the message list, the ellipses became visible (mostly on high-definition monitors)
(#0000958) Tiny and overlapping "next" and "last" buttons below the message body (on high-definition displays)
(#0000955) Tiny "first/last" and "next/previous" buttons for the message list tabs (on high-definition displays)
(#0000954) Account/folder tree tabs are tiny and overlap (on high-definition displays)
(#0000892) Mouse cursor shows the "forbidden" sign if the user opens contact properties using double-click
The Bat! could not complete the "Exit" command (the main window became inoperable after you close it) after you have created an account and tested connectivity to SMTP in the new account wizard
(#0001005) Images are printed with the template
(#0000997) SmartBat: Printed Text uses print templates for mails when printing via Print Preview
(#0001046) If Quick Reply is enabled in the Message Finder, the Results tab becomes empty
(#0000968) Tiny progress bar in Message Finder (F7) (on high-definition displays)
(#0000974) Scheduler Event via Sorting Office action was displayed incorrectly (on high-definition displays)
(#0000961) Tiny close buttons in the message list tabs incorrectly (on high-definition displays)
(#00000962) Quick Reply pane is small (on high-definition displays)
Grayed out items (like IMAP messages that weren't loaded) in the message list didn't scale
Buttons didn't scale in the address grid of the message editor (on high-definition displays)
(#0000948) Tiny contents of the OAUTH window (on high-definition displays)
Internal HTML viewer didn’t scale logical pixels properly to physical pixels (on high-definition displays)
(#0001055) The letter "g" does not fit on the search pane in the separate message viewer and in message finder (F7)
(#0000919) Attachments' size turns 0 bytes after editing an email for the second time
The mail ticker didn't scale (on high-definition displays)
(#0000812) When resolution and display scaling is increased, the text gets unreadable in the address book (on high-definition displays)
(#0001061) Selection color becomes invalid in the message list and in the Connection Center
The widths of the status bar elements in the Message Finder and in the Connection Center didn't scale on high-definition monitors
(#0001036) Sorting Office columns too narrow (on high-definition displays)
(#0001037) Tiny conditions' drop-down arrows in Sorting Office (on high-definition displays)
(#0001042) Filter text in Sorting Office always black
(#0000884) AV errors on exit if an image was opened in an IMAP account
(#0001063) Sorting office - filters that set colour groups always use blue text
(#0000999) Spell-checker-specific underline (red) are not scaled for high resolution
Check boxes were truncated at the bottom when UI font 9pt was used in the Message List Tabs editor dialog
The radio buttons did overlap in the print preview window
(#0000890) Access Violation error after compacting address books
The Bat! could only allow compressing an address book when there were at least 1% of free space; the user could not compress the address book when there were less free space, e.g. only one entry deleted, which is not good from the security or privacy point of view
(#0000659) Errors on compressing address books while On-The-Fly encryption was on
Memory corruption on compacting address books with photos or certificates
(#0001060) Message header names were top-aligned in the Message Editor
(#0000988) Numbered list - Description is missing
(#0000703) Removed import/export address entries from Google and Synchronize popup item from Google address books created earlier
(#0000996) Print Preview: Two groups of option boxes did exclude each other
(#0000639) URLs are not displayed as hyperlinks in Windows Editor
Access Violation while starting The Bat (related to quick reply)
(#0001049) "List index out of bounds" error message in the HTML-editor
(#0000987) Clicking anywhere in the message body opens mail.ru sign-in page
Access violation when working with 64-bit plugins, for example when clicking learn spam/learn ham plugin on the toolbar
(#0000559) The main menu command Folder|Check for viruses was removed in 6.3.0.5 - now put back
Cleanup for possible multiple "List index out of bounds" error messages while editing/moving/undo/redo and tracking mouse in editor
Fixed an Access Violation when running The Bat! for the first time and creating an account with empty account password
An IMAP connection went to Inbox between other commands, when it was not needed. A connection should only go to Inbox when there are no pending tasks at all, so all the connections are idle. There were a bug in determining whether a connection is idle, so it went to INBOX over and over again between executing other commands. You could observe it in the IMAP protocol log
The Bat! didn't exit properly if the user had tags configured
The Bat! didn't support "Priority: non-urgent" (see RFC-4021 section 2.1.54)
Connection center labels were occasionally deleted in The Bat! 5.0.18.12 (23-Jul-2011) - now restored

New in The Bat! Home Edition 7.3.12 (Oct 26, 2016)

Improvements:
Increased speed by using faster string-comparison operations rather than Windows 32 CompareString in places where case-insensitive comparison of national characters wasn't needed
Changed Custom Print Page Setup look and feel
Changed file name for the Image Download Rules configuration file. It is now ImgDlRules.TXT
(#517) Friendly error messages when The Bat! is unable to open an URL
Added timing information to the Exchange protocol log
Fixes:
(#924) Unusable scroll bars for images in the message preview tabs
(#969) Inserting an URL into a marked text deletes the rest of the line
Changing Print Template while Print Preview is not instantly reflected on preview
Memory leaks fixed for Print and Print Preview processes
Fixed double-loading of paletted PNG files (bug introduced in version 7.1.18.13)
(#986) Some PNG files were incorrectly rendered in HTML
(#970) Color selection palette in table properties is truncated
(#907) Tables pasted from Excel cannot be edited
(#935) Table resize separator doesn't stop following mouse cursor after a button is released
(#909) Umlauts in URLs are encoded wrong with Quoted-Printable in HTML messages
Fixed some memory leaks in IMAP filters
Fixed a bug that made The Bat! slow in some cases since 5.3.8.6 and slow in MAPI protocol (Exchange) since 6.1.0.1 (in some places, in-memory data search in sorted arrays wasn't actually performed using the binary search algorithm; sequential search was used instead)
(#956) Fixed tiny splash screen on high-resolution monitors (large fonts/scaling)
(#983) Short strings in proxy settings on high-resolution monitors (large fonts/scaling)
Fixed an access violation while rendering 1x1gif on high-resolution monitors (large fonts/scaling)
(#973) Disproportionate buttons in Sorting Office action on exporting signatures or certificates on high-resolution monitors (large fonts/scaling)
Chinese characters didn't always fit in the configuration dialogs
(#931) Missing input fields in folder properties for setting maximum message storing values on high-resolution monitors (large fonts/scaling)
(#978) Wrong wrapping of the explanation text for templates in folder properties on high-resolution monitors (large fonts/scaling)
(#984) Replying to an HTML with missing external images was very slow since 7.1.18.11. Now, The Bat! does not slow down when replying an HTML message with external images, but also doesn't try to download them when you click "Reply". It only puts those messages to the reply that have been already downloaded before, i.e. when you have viewed this message. If you have configured to not show images when viewing images, the replied message will not have the images.
(#909) Umlauts in URLs are encoded wrong with Quoted-Printable in HTML messages
(#916) Address Book did not synchronize with iCloud
(#609) MAPI: Cyrillic characters in file names are turned into question marks in the Subject filed of the message when sent from MS Word 2013
Messages about unknown errors were too confusing
(#382) Incomplete Hint is shown in Inbox Analyzer Window
(#909) Umlauts in URLs are encoded wrong with Quoted-Printable in HTML messages
New account window didn't have focus on first run
(#912) Image Download Manager rules are not restored from backup
IMAP had low performance when browsing messages one-by-one in a folder, when multiple connections were active - it did deselect the folder after getting a message and then SELECT again for next message
(#889) Cropped smiley in internal HTML mail viewer
(#887) When forwarding several mails to one recipient with the dialog box, the inline graphics arrive as attachments if at all
(#445) Image Viewer is very slow on large images, consumes lot of CPU
MAPI connections to Exchange might not work sometimes under 64-bits because pointers might have been truncated to 32 bits

New in The Bat! Home Edition 7.3.2 (Sep 13, 2016)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 7.2 (Sep 13, 2016)

New features:
A warning dialog is now displayed when a second copy of the program is running
Email body in XHTML format is now displayed
Option to "Save HTML with default font" (see "OptionsPreferencesViewer/EditorEditor Preferences")
Content-Type: text/calendar is now associated with vCalendar
If Internet Explorer 8 is available, the layout engine is calculating document pixels as 96 dpi
A warning is displayed if images used in templates were moved or renamed
Improvements:
The internal messages queue has been redesigned resulting in significant speed improvements when receiving a large number of small messages via very fast connection to a POP3 or EWS server, the user interface became much more responsive
The creation time of a message is displayed in case a message’s receipt time is much earlier than its creation time
X-Priority header line is only included into the new messages with low and high priority. For normal-priority messages, this header line is no longer used, thus the "X-Priority: 3 (Normal)" will not be specified from now on
Faster mail retrieval in large MAPI accounts
Selection moves to the top of the list after deleting a contact in the address book
EWS: reduced memory usage
Fixes:
Example email address in the default address book has been changed from [email protected] to [email protected]
Cannot pin the Mail Ticker on secondary monitor positioned vertically
Not enough space for "Input OpenPGP key pass phrase" and "Please input the master password"
The window when compacting a folder had no title
Out of memory or Access Violation error message when opening a corrupted folder file has been fixed
Quick templates inserted in HTML mode were losing hyperlinks formatting
Domain for punycode was case sensitive
An extra line appeared while inserting HTML quick templates in the plain text editor
Hyperlinks were not created in the HTML editor while inserting plain text quick templates with hyperlinks
Extra blanks were applied to standard signature template
Fixes in message body tags while generating HTML messages
Font size of non-hypertext fragments of inserted plain text quick template is now the same as default settings
The issue with the flickering black message editor window on Windows XP has been eliminated
Font size was not applied to hyperlinks in the templates signature
Replies were losing multiple levels of quotes
A workaround for bad implementations of the Authority Key Identifier decoding, which finally turned out to negatively affect proper implementations - some parent certificates couldn't be found, has been removed
EWS: cannot send email with large attachments when using on-the-fly message base encryption
EWS: messages could not be moved or deleted while using the on-the-fly message base encryption
EWS: received messages had wrong creation date - Jan 1, 1980
A part of Facebook notification messages was displayed two times
Access violation error when editing several contacts in the address book at once
"Select the Account" window appears behind the web-browser
Exceptions.log contains NULL bytes
Tags are not displayed on the header pane
Tags in Cyrillic turn into garbage and get multiplied
An issue with extra double apostrophes in the names of senders/recipients has been eliminated
When account password was empty, sometimes the password dialog stayed in the background and was invisible
In case an HTML template contained a table, it was impossible to place the cursor to the required field
An Access Violation error message which appeared while trying to edit an HTML template with a table has been fixed
An Access Violation on address search termination in the address book has been fixed
RSS feed Links containing Cyrillic characters were displayed incorrectly
Images with Cyrillic in file names inserted into HTML do not disappear anymore
Invalid pointer operation error message caused by the spell checker locking the clipboard
No more freezes when scrolling large RSS documents on the Entire text tab
Files attached to messages get multiplied
Some RSS feeds displayed wrong creation date
When forwarding mail with external graphics links, the links are not carried into the email
Fixed an access violation when moving between IMAP folders
Short strings in the "OptionsPreferences..." window in Russian
Truncated text in folder maintenance start window
Passphrase dialog has not enough size and can’t be resized
Reply to HTML mail has no quotes
The Bat! could not display transparent 8-Bit PNG files
8bit PNG pictures (indexed color table, with transparency) always showed black background
Images are not displayed if The Bat! HTML Viewer is used
Image Viewer is very slow on large images, consumes lot of CPU
Some inline GIF files were truncated
Certain HTML messages were not rendered correctly when using the internal HTML viewer
Certain PNG (indexed palette) pictures were displayed black
HTML Links were not clickable
Hyperlinks in the HTML Editor opened wrong web-pages
Formatting of the quick templates was lost if inserted in HTML messages
While forwarding multiple messages the respective Forward-templates were not used
Images are compressed horizontally when replying or forwarding the email
It's not possible to save changes in the "Insert Hyperlink" window
Some fixes of the Unicode password handling in the GUI

New in The Bat! Home Edition 7.1.8 (Jan 9, 2016)

New features:
OAuth 2.0 authentication mechanism for GMail and Mail.Ru
The "Use Address Book display names" option for message list
"From (Address Book)" and "To (Address Book)" message list columns are now available
EWS autodiscover logging in the "Create New Account" dialog
Priority, receipt/reading confirmation options for sending messages from EWS accounts
EWS accounts: moving and copying messages/items between folders is now possible
Server-side deletion of messages/items in EWS accounts
"Load Active Directory contacts" option in the EWS accounts properties
While retrieving Exchange items via EWS, the company Active Directory contacts are now also retrieved
"Get only items later than:" option in EWS accounts
Improvements:
When HTTP proxy is defined in The Bat! under "Network\Administration", it overrides operating system’s Internet options
Sound after finishing search is made optional
Files’ creation time is used as the received time for messages opened from .EML files
Fixes:
Search is now working in Virtual Folders
The "Create New Account" dialog was missing EWS pre-configured settings for some well-known email services
Registration keys from some HTML messages couldn't be copy-pasted into the key input form, if The Bat! used Windows OS HTML viewer
The Bat! didn't properly handle Unicode text files and could only load text files in Windows or UTF-8 encoding, not UTF-16. As a result, tips files in UTF-16 could not be displayed
RSS error unexpected exception EXMLDocError, Details: "Element "content" does not contain a single text node" has been eliminated
Access violation error upon saving HTML-templates with changes of test formatting in tables has been fixed
Access violation error, which appeared while copying emails with inline images and Content ID between different accounts has been fixed
If the user entered a registration key from a previous version, The Bat! did not properly display the program’s version number
Fixes in displaying of RSS subject lines for those aggregators that treat titles as HTML and second level of encoding may be expected to comply with HTML
Memory leaks have been eliminated
Reply-To and In-Reply-To fields in EWS accounts are now properly displayed
Access violation error message that appeared while downloading external images for HTML emails has been fixed
Program’s interface could get frozen while retrieving a large number of messages (1000>) with broadband access
The Bat! didn't import the gender field from tab delimited files to the address book
Access violation error messages, which appeared in the account log, have been fixed
Search within the found messages in the Message Finder was not working
The warning upon opening of more than 5 messages in a separate window at once is functioning again
Problems with extended IMAP authentication mechanisms (like CRAM-MD5, NTLM, etc) have been fixed
The "D-TRUST Root Class 3 CA 2 EV 2009" certificate has been added
Access violation error that appeared when searching contacts on LDAP servers has been fixed
Fixes in displaying folder names in the folder selection for Mail Ticker
(#0000635) Truncated checkbox "Action" and option "Load signal string..." in the Sorting Office | Selective download section
(#0000596) Truncated checkbox "With attachments" in the Setup Message List Tab dialog
(#0000543) Truncated captions in folder maintenance results pane
(#0000637) Short strings in the Connection Center window
Fixed some caption truncation by width and height
Access violation error that occurred while processing large accounts with Inbox Analyzer has been fixed

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.8.8 (Jul 2, 2015)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.8.4 (Jul 2, 2015)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.8.2 (Jul 2, 2015)

New features:
Accounts can now be associated with Color Groups
Incoming filters are now working for RSS Feeds
The "Create New Account" dialog will hide MAPI from the list of protocols if none is detected in the current system
You can configure The Bat! to not specify the %EMAIL% variable by running it with the /DontWriteEmailEnvironmentVariable command line parameter, or by setting the DWORD DontWriteEmailEnvironmentVariable variable to 1 under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RIT\The Bat!
An animated indicator has been added to in the "Create New Account" dialog
Improvements:
Timing log for the Exchange accounts
The Bat! will ignore IPF.NOTE.SOCIALCONNECTOR, IPF.NOTE.OUTLOOKHOMEPAGE, IPF.ShortcutFolder, Outlook.Reminder folder types while interacting with the Exchange server via MAPI
The "User name" label has been renamed to "Mailbox name" in MAPI accounts to differentiate it from the user name used for authentication
Better logging of certificate errors in TLS
Fixes:
Fixed a bug that might have caused access violation or incorrect behavior when forwarding messages with HTML parts from using Sorting Office filters
Caching was allowed for downloading RSS feeds, causing no-update issues on some servers
(#623) Ctrl+Ins shortcut was not working after selection of all text using Ctrl+A in the message viewer
Possible errors of the 64-bit version have been fixed
(#624) Opening a "mailto" URL from a common folder did not choose an appropriate active account for the new message
ORFO 2014 options were neither visible nor accessible
The Bat! could not use 64-bit spell checkers via the CSAPI interface. For example, it could not use ORFO and returned an access violation error in The Bat! 64-bit version
(#541) GnuPG did not work with the 64-bit version of The Bat!
(#688) The Bat! 64-bit did not work with eToken
Address History could show duplicate messages when the "scan subfolders" option was used
Deleting a MAPI account and requesting to "Delete account files" did not clean up all the files
Safer way of loading the GROUPS.CFG (GROUPS.EFG) in case this file is damaged or improperly decrypted
(#686) If the interface language was set to U.S. English some British English words were still used
(#441) Next message group could be not selected upon deletion of a message group
Fixed slowdowns in address history
Fixed slowdowns in getting messages from MS Exchange servers via extended MAPI

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.8 (Jul 2, 2015)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.7.5 (Dec 23, 2014)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.7 (Dec 23, 2014)

New features:
New dialogue for account creation
"Auto" character set instead of "None" - The Bat! selects optimal character set for the entered text
Support of the GB18030 Chinese character set
Improvements:
By default the charset for new messages in new accounts is "Auto"
Internal character processing changed from UCS-2 to UTF-16 to support Chinese characters and other rare characters
Better detection of Chinese, Japanese and Korean user interface fonts
Reply-To-All now fills TO and CC fields corresponding to the lists in the original messages
(#540) Export of multiple messages is now done accordingly to the message list sort order
Smarter imported field recognition in address book import from text files with coma- or tab-separated values
Fixes:
Fixed a bug in charset handling (sometimes The Bat! gave an error like "The message characters cannot be encoded using currently selected "Windows-1252" character set. Please use "Windows-1255")
Messages with invalid characters encoded into the 936 code page for gb2312 (Chinese Simplified) were shown as empty messages
New messages were not added to the open MailTicker message lists
Some Chinese and Japanese charsets weren't handled properly; some charset names were not displayed translated in The Bat! interface
ISO-2022 characters were improperly encoded in the message headers with Quoted-Printable method. The "" should have been also encoded
Mouse click selection of a viewer/editor text item in View Profile settings was not functional
Problem with continuing pasted URLs in Quick Reply pane
Registration keys from some dealers could come from resellers in HTML format where line breaks (CR/LF characters) were not properly formatted as or prefixed by
(#486) Open/Save dialogue was not used when the program was started with the "Disable visual themes" option in the compatibility settings
The "Message released..." error message after deletion an attachment from a message
(#590) The "Failed to set calendar selected range" error when opening Calendar

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.6 (Dec 23, 2014)

New features:
An option to save selected attachments into a specified folder without confirming each file has been implemented
It is now possible to specify macros in backup archive comments
The following character sets are now supported: EUC-JIS-2004, SHIFT_JIS-2004, ISO-2022-JP-2004, BIG5-2003
Added support for ORFO 2014
Extra code pages have been enabled: cp856, cp922, cp943, cp1046, cp1124, cp1129, cp1161, cp1162, cp1163, dec_kanji, dec_hanyu, cp437, cp737, cp775, cp852, cp853, cp855, cp857, cp858, cp860, cp861, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp869, cp1125, euc_jisx0213, shift_jisx0213, iso2022_jp3, big5_2003, tds565, atarist and riscos1
RSS version 0.91, 0.92 and 1.0 are now supported as well
Improvements:
Lists of the seen POP messages (from ACCOUNT.M_R and ACCOUNT.M_D) are now updated at the start of each POP session
The Account information tab can be closed now. Should you need the account information in future, you will be able to reactivate this tab in the global preferences
Indication of IMAP folder listing completion in the IMAP Folder Manager to avoid confusion
Extended mouse buttons are now working not only in message lists, but in all message list windows
Web-help is now used if invoked under the Russian program interface language
Memory usage optimization for sending large messages
Multi-tag description in RSS feeds is now supported
The layout of message list context menu was changed to make functions that are frequently used more accessible
(#0297) An error regarding messages containing several text/plain inline parts and displaying them as having a single text part has been fixed
New threading modes: by Sender Name, Sender Address, Recipient Name and Recipient Address
The attachments pane menu was reworked: the option "Select All" was added; the option “Save to a folder” is visible when multiple attachments are selected
/STARTUP_TIMING_LOG now displays which tasks in backup consume most time
Fixes:
(#0008) Postponed messages are no longer sent many times after re-editing
(#0142) The Reply-To field is not filled any more, if it is empty upon editing a stored message as new
(#0479) HTML Images from files with names with non-ASCII characters are now stored with correct names
Since version 6.0 The Bat! didn't work with external PGP 5,6,7,8,9,10, that issue has been eliminated
(#0483) Tag statistics are now correctly loaded when on-the-fly message base encryption is used
Split messages are automatically combined on IMAP
The Bat! handles errors in ISO-2022 (Japanese) encoding properly now
The /LOG_PGP_COMMAND_LINE command line parameter is now functional as it used to be in versions prior to 6.0
The Bat! does not pass recipients to GnuPG with curly braces any more
The "Compact folder after each message deletion" option is now once again functional in IMAP accounts
The "Book" button in the "Add to address book" helper dialogue properly works now
The Access Violation error message when moving messages from one IMAP account to another has been fixed
The Access Violation error message when moving messages from IMAP to local folders has been fixed
The issue with restoring folders with the "&" character in the name has been eliminated
A problem with importing of UTF in CSV has been fixed
In issue forcing the usage of Tahoma by default as the message header font rather than Segoe UI has been eliminated
(#0356) Problems with non-ASCII characters in file names in the "Watch and Send files" Scheduler action have been fixed
The issue causing "Unexpected exception EEncodingError" error message in the RSS reader has been fixed
(#0421) The problem forcing The Bat! to crash after closing with user-defined Message Tab has been eliminated
(#0512) Messages left on the POP3 server are now deleted when removed from The Bat!’s Trash folder if the "Delete message from server when it is removed from Trash" option is enabled
(#0233) The issue with color drop-downs ignoring localized names in different dialogs has been fixed
The Access Violation error, which appeared in the Inbox Analyzer while trying to check RSS account, has been fixed
Memory leaks caused by using the operating system’s web-browser as the HTML viewer have been eliminated
Data from LDIF files with international characters is now correctly imported
Contacts with international characters are now correctly exported into LDIF files
The issue preventing the imported groups to be immediately visible in the address book has been fixed
"Reply to All" from the Quick Reply pane does not use all addresses in the "To:" field anymore
(#0532) New Tag colour settings are now saved correctly
(#0503) Problems that occurred when printing from SmartBat have been resolved
(#0536) The issue related to automatic completion of server settings when creating new accounts has been fixed
Captions were truncated in some dialogs for certain languages
High DPI awareness wasn't properly declared since version 6.5. As a result, fonts on high-DPI-monitors were blurred under Windows 8.1
Reduced CPU consumption during backup and increased backup speed

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.4.0 (Jun 2, 2014)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.3.4 (Apr 27, 2014)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.3.2 (Apr 22, 2014)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.2.14 (Feb 14, 2014)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.2.12 (Feb 7, 2014)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.2.8 (Feb 7, 2014)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.2.6 (Feb 7, 2014)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.2.2 (Jan 3, 2014)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.1.8 (Dec 27, 2013)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.1.2 (Dec 20, 2013)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 6.0.0.28 (Nov 14, 2013)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 5.8.8 (Nov 14, 2013)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 5.8.2 (Sep 27, 2013)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 5.4.8 (Sep 19, 2013)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 5.4.0 (May 25, 2013)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 5.3.10 (May 20, 2013)

Some 8-bit encoding problems when sending a message to an Address Group
Messages about invalid PNG files are not displayed; instead as much data as possible is recovered from the broken images
Selected Headers of the Message Editor were shown wrong in menus
Changing of a message priority was not reflected at the MailTicker(TM)
Read filters were always invoked disregarding to the "Manual Only" settings
Message editor: some HTML messages were quoted in a wrong way
Timeout in account settings wasn't used for IMAP connection
Certificates/keys from PFX files with unknown attributes could not be imported
Attachment name can be incorrectly encoded
When a message reminder was set up, the default notification settings were not used
Text in HTML reply can be trimmed when printed
Settings for www.outlook.com were added
Quick Reply from separate windows could use a wrong message for reference
Clipboard can be permanently locked (until program restart)
Fixed a bug with PGP passphrase caching
Custom ServersInfo.INI can be placed into the mail directory in order to add default transport settings for new account
IMAP. Negative counter error after message expunging (additional fix)
Further fix of the IMAP timeout (BETA issue)
Import from CVS-file with some fields empty but enclosed by quotes, into the address book, gave incorrect results.
PluginAPI. Message tags can be manipulated
Some cosmetics fixes in form TlsTrust.dfm
Date decoding can fail if specified date is before January 1, 1601 (UTC)
Sometimes messages from closed password protected account are shown in Mail Ticker and can be viewed when double-clicked. To workaround this issue ask password.
IMAP. Program cannot be closed after attach loading
MinWidth of the form was increased in FEdit.pas
UI Fixes in "Help" menu
The Bat! didn't properly decode inline PGP and UUE from HTML-only messages
Message tags with non-ASCII characters could be encoded a wrong way
Cosmetic Fixes at IMAP Settings
Updated root CA certificates
Quick Reply was using addressee information only in the %QTO macro, now this information is used by default
Message Finder - "Any part" conditions wasn't stored in search history
Some fixes in English help file
Preferences dialog must always appear at screen center
When account was locked, sometimes it was possible to read folders with unread messages
Hunspell engine was updated to version 1.3.2
HTTP requester can lose data from server when proxy with authentication was used
Speller. Less steps to select user dictionary to add word
HTTP requester hangs if Content-Length = 0
Big icon for SmartBat
Grammar fixes in GlbPrefs (HTML Viewer)
Grammar fixes in HTML Viewer Settings
Quick templates weren't shown as Forward button sub-menu

New in The Bat! Home Edition 5.3.8 (May 20, 2013)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 5.3.6 (Jan 2, 2013)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 5.2.2 (Sep 24, 2012)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 5.0.36 (Mar 5, 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

New in The Bat! Home Edition 5.0.32 (Jan 30, 2012)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 5.0.30 (Dec 28, 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

New in The Bat! Home Edition 5.0.16 (Jul 1, 2011)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 5.0.14 (Jul 1, 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

New in The Bat! Home Edition 5.0.12 (May 3, 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.

New in The Bat! Home Edition 5.08 (Apr 8, 2011)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 4.2.33 (Apr 21, 2010)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 4.2.23 (Jan 30, 2010)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 4.2.16 (Dec 29, 2009)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 4.2.4 (Jun 8, 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.

New in The Bat! Home Edition 4.1.11 (Jan 30, 2009)

New in The Bat! Home Edition 4.1.7 (Dec 25, 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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