
The Bat! is a powerful email client for home and office use. It integrates a great number of features that will ease your work and save precious time. The program is highly customizable and able to satisfy all your needs when it comes to e-mail management. The Bat! integrates all the features of a standard e-mail client. In addition, it comes with many built-in automated characteristics for e-mail management.
Using The Bat! you can easily handle a great numbers of messages. You can sort and store the e-mails in specific folders. In addition to the default folders (Inbox, Outbox, Sent and Trash), you are allowed to create as many other folders as you want, generating your own directory hierarchy. The Bat! offers the possibility to automatically store e-mails in specific folders using the filters feature. The Folder Maintenance Center keeps the folders in a good state by performing actions like integrity checking, duplicates removing, purging old messages, compressing folders and many others.
Another important thing about The Bat! is that it supports multiple e-mail accounts. For each account you are allowed to change the properties, templates, folders, filters and many more. Using the Sorting Office from the Accounts menu you will be able to easily switch accounts within a single dialog box. Other built-in tools of The Bat! are the scheduler, the quick search, the mail chat, the SmartBat and many others that will extend the capabilities of the program.
When it comes to security and protecting your privacy, The Bat! integrates features that protect users from malicious e-mail content. Using a plug-in interface you can install third-party anti-virus tools that will keep your inbox virus-free. The application also incorporates the the BayesIT plug-in that will efficiently detect and remove spam e-mails.
The Bat! stands as a great alternative to other popular e-mail clients with its large number of customizable features.
v6.7 [Oct 22, 2014]
The Bat! 6.7
10/22/2014
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