Software Update: The Bat! 5.3.10

Ritlabs has version 5.3.10 of its email program The Bat! released. The program supports several 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. As usual, home users should also International Pack Updating. The difference between the Pro and Home editions is shown on this page Out of the blankets. The release notes for this release can be found below.

New features

• PluginAPI: Message tags can be manipulated

Improvements

• Hunspell engine was updated to version 1.3.2
• Now the user has less steps to select user dictionary to add words to a spell checker dictionary
• Interface fixes in the “Help” menu
• Cosmetic fixes at IMAP Settings
• Preferences dialogue should now always appear in the center of the screen
• Default mail server settings for www.outlook.com were added
• Custom ServersInfo.INI can be placed into the mail directory in order to add default transport settings for new accounts

Fixes

• Root CA certificates have been updated
• Some 8-bit encoding problems when sending a message to an Address Group have been fixed
• 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 regardless of 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 could be incorrectly encoded
• When a message reminder was set up, the default notification settings were not used
• Text in HTML reply could be trimmed when printed
• Quick Reply from separate windows could use a wrong message for reference
• Clipboard could be permanently locked (until program restart)
• A bug with PGP passphrase caching has been fixed
• Fixed a negative counter error on IMAP after message expunging (additional fix)
• Import from CVS-file with some fields empty but enclosed by quotes into the address book returned incorrect results
• Date decoding can fail if specified date is before January 1, 1601 (UTC)
• Sometimes messages from closed password protected accounts were shown in MailTicker(TM) and could be viewed when double-clicked. To work around this issue ask password.
• Program could not be closed after attachment loading on IMAP
• The Bat! didn’t properly decode inline PGP and UUE from HTML-only messages
• Message tags with non-ASCII characters could be encoded in a wrong way
• Quick Reply was using addressee information only in the %QTO macro, now this information is used by default
• Message Finder – “Any part” conditions was not stored in the search history
• When account was locked, sometimes it was possible to read folders with unread messages
• HTTP requester can lose data from server when proxy with authentication was used
• Quick templates were not shown as a Forward button sub-menu