Software Update: The Bat! 6.1.14

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Ritlabs has version 6.0 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.

New in version 6.1 is support for tls version 1.1 and ssl version 3.0 and the data of contacts can be imported from Exchange. People who purchased their license before September 25 can’t access version 6.1 for free upgrade. The complete changelog for this release can be found below.

New features

  • TLS 1.1
  • SSL 3.0
  • Import of Exchange contacts from MS Outlook
  • Added support for hardware CRAM-MD5 (token) authentication in IMAP

Improvements

  • Split messages aren’t automatically combined in IMAP folders
  • Faster message retrieval over POP3 with large volumes of messages kept on the server
  • A high-resolution version of the main program icon has been added

Fixes

  • Additional images could not be attached after an image had been removed from the HTML-message body
  • Switching to HTML tab did hide tab pane when message is viewed in separate window
  • Improper displaying of addresses with paired double quotes
  • Setting message tags with the “Message|Tags|More tags” command was broken
  • Wrong editor format indication when the %SetEditor macro was used
  • The SMTP option “Do not store password, prompt on retrieval” now functions properly
  • Import from Google Contacts was partial in some cases
  • Import from Microsoft Outlook Express address book didn’t work properly
  • It wasn’t possible to make program associations in Windows XP
  • Smileys and Rogues were inactive
  • Bugs in the dial-up access functionality have been fixed
  • (#0000243) “Invalid Pointer Operation” on every other call of Print
  • Time in Cron format was incorrectly handled in the Scheduler
  • Export of addressbook as text or csv generates UTF-8 without BOM for MS Excel, it leads to wrong non-latin characters
  • Cannot upgrade from 5.8.8 to 6.x using eToken OTFE
  • Fixed exception when drag-n-drop ABD file from Win Explorer to white region of address books list
  • TLS connections with some servers didn’t work.

Version number 6.1.14
Release status Final
Operating systems Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 8
Website Ritlabs
Download http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/download.php
File sizes

8.78MB – 26.79MB

License type Shareware
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