Software Update: The Bat! 6.4.0

Ritlabs has version 6.4.0 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 to update. The difference between the Pro and Home editions is shown on this page Out of the blankets. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Improvements

• PGP keys from messages signed using PGP clear text method can be taken without signature verification

Fixes

• International characters are now properly handled in the MAILTO command line parameter
• ASLR works properly in the new version
• The issue related to creating “Normal” folders instead of Aggregate ones while importing RSS subscriptions has been fixed
• An error which could lead to RSS folder database corruption has been eliminated
• (#0000373) Improper behavior when dragging an attachment stored on IMAP server
• Import from Outlook Express has been fixed
• Reworked handling of IMAP filters internally to save valuable CPU cycles
• Possible AV error messages when switching to non-RSS folders while entire RSS item text is being loaded has been fixed