Software Update: The Bat! 4.2.16

Ritlabs has released a new release of its email program The Bat! with version 4.2.16. made available. The program supports multiple pop3 and imap4 accounts and has a Bayesian spam filter and extensive search and filtering capabilities. The Bat is available in the flavors Home and Professional Edition, where students and non-profit organizations receive a discount on the purchase price. Home users must, as usual, also have their International Pack to update. The difference between the Pro and Home editions is shown on this page Out of the blankets. The changelog for this release looks like this:

New:

• Sorting Office: possibility to define alternative paths for the “Extract attachments” action
• For S/MIME internal implementation, you can now use Elliptic Curves Cryptography in addition to RSA. You can choose between algorithms when generating a new certificate.
• The Menu Navigator buttons are now shown in the menu bars
• In an address book, when you import and address entry from an X.509 certificate, now the entry is created with the certificate within
• New macros: %SoftwareVersion (same as %TheBatVersion) and %SoftwareSerialNumber (same as %TheBatSerialNumber)
• A new action in the filters to export an S/MIME signature, or a signing certificate, or information about certificate, to a file

Changed:

• The word “re-send” is changed to “resend” in menu items to facilitate search in the Menu Navigator
• “Capture addresses” action in the sorting office is renamed to “Add to address book”
• If an error occurs when creating message base index, The Bat! now reports the folder name in addition to the error message to let the user know what folder is troublesome
• “Open Reply” automatically adds folders defined by filter Copy and Move actions to the scope

Fixed:

• (#0007627) Some settings in HTML templates are not saved
• (#0007440) Images are not inserted from HTML Quick Template
• “Find Certificates” menu item of the Tools/Privacy menu didn’t follow to certificates in an address book with groups
• When you click “Follow” in “find certificates” and get to list certificates from the user’s account, the “View” button was disabled.
• The “View Folder” window didn’t have the Menu Navigator in the “View” menu
• (#0002180) Menu navigator’s icon (Question mark) is blinking
• (#0002309) Menu Navigator does not become unfocused when the window is unfocused
• (#0007772) AV when trying to apply a color group to an account, when no folder is selected
• Fixed a caption (“Mozilla’s Thunderbird” to “Mozilla Thunderbird”) in the mailbox import wizard
• Updated default PGP public key
• When using S/MIME internal implementation, you can now import certificates included in a signature, but included to an encrypted message as well
• The “Find Certificates” feature didn’t work with uppercase email addresses
• MAPI library could give an AV on Exchange accounts when no MS Outlook was installed
• (#0000758) Error message is not displayed when TB! cannot delete the message because of lack of free disk space.
• There were an old bug of reading thebat.lng, which might in some cases cause slowness in reading thebat.lng file, if it was signed by an Authenticode signature
• (#0007511) HTML display problem
• (#0007807) Wrong images positioning in HTML letter
• If an error happens when compressing folders on exit, The Bat! now handles is gracefully
• (#0007812) Sorting Office: Icons have disappeared and an additional textbox has appeared
• Fixed a problem with column widths with Large Fonts
• (#0007810) Some messages cannot be printed
• (#0007699) Some Macros didn’t work when followed by “%-” then a line break and some text
• (#0007238) Reply to a message limited to its title (body being void), Access Violation appears using HTML editor
• (#0007712) HTML editor inserts wrong font families
• (#0005717) “Open Reply” does not find reply in common folder
• (#0006374) Large hyperlinks is not working
• (#0007775) Improve rendering of some HTML tags
• (#0006707) Position of “Table properties” is not centered by default and new position is not saved
• (#0007731) Sorting possibilities in the Address Picker dialogue were not the same as in the Address Book
• (#0007806) Double inherited parameters for float boxes in HTML weren’t displayed properly
• (#0007696) same HTMLs disappears after a second
• (#0007833) Set user char set for HTML messages
• Lost images from quick templates
• The “Use S/MIME” and “Use OpenPGP” options were not enabled in the editor during a reply
• The option to display Menu Navigator button on the window title bar is now renamed and also affects the button on the menu bar
• The “Menu Navigator” was always disabled unless theme services were enabled.