Software Update: The Bat! 8.3

Ritlabs has released version 8.3 of its email program The Bat. The program supports several pop3 and imap4 accounts, and has a Bayesian spam filter and extensive search and filtering capabilities. Furthermore, there is support for pgp, end-to-end encryption and the e-mails can be stored encrypted on the hard disk. Furthermore, there are no minimum system requirements. It runs on the oldest hardware, but can also handle the AVX-512 instruction set, which can be found in Intel’s Xeon Phi x200 Knights Landing. The changelog for this release looks like this:

New features

• (#0001422) The “Copy Format” in the Message Editor
• (#0001437) You can now add a column with a short folder name – just a name without its full path
• (#0001453) It is now possible to add secondary addresses of an address book entry to the To or CC field or to not add at all, instead of just an option to add to BCC as before

Fixes

• (#0001161) The menu entry “Download International Pack” is obsolete
• (#0001349) Outdated version number while authenticating at Gmail via OAUTH
• (#0001366) Needless confirmation on closing editor window after saving the message via Ctrl+S
• (#0001407) The Message Dispatcher does not remember the position of the header auto-view splitter
• (#0001408) CardDAV synchronization did not transfer URLs to server and deleted them afterwards in The Bat (tested with mailbox.org)
• (#0001414) CardDAV synchronization duplicates three phone numbers and overwrites three others (tested with mailbox.org)
• (#0001439) Wrong handling of “<" and ">” characters in the messages created out of HTML templates
• (#0001442) The “Lock toolbars” option is not remembered in the Message Dispatcher window
• (#0001444) The Quick Search skips the search/display criteria of the selected tab
• (#0001455) Fixed the bug “TLS protocol error” Internal error GenerateKeyBlockCipher when connecting to servers with DES/3DES ciphers (a bug of The Bat! v8.2.8)
• (#0001456) Fixed an access violation on exit when The Bat! was configured to be minimized to the System Tray