Software Update: The Bat! 9.4.3

Version 9.4.3 of the more than twenty-year-old email client The Bat! it came out. The new director of the Moldovan company Ritlabs, Stefan Tanurkov, is fully committed to modernizing his program. For example, the HTML rendering engine of Chromium has replaced the outdated internal engine and that of Internet Explorer and there is now also a dark mode. The program has also undergone several changes in the interface and really looks much fresher than before. In version 9.4.3 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New features

• Option for minimum font size in the HTML viewer
• HTML message background settings are now functional
• The ability to edit HTML source code is now available in the Utilities menu in the templates (F9)
• Image Download Manager for downloading images from external resources
• The “Clear Cache” button and the current cache size information at the HTML Viewer settings page
• The “Authorization code” input for OAUTH login using system web browser

Improvements

• Chromium Engine (CEF) updated to v91.1
• Images referenced by https/http links remain intact after saving
• Automatic follow-up when replying from a “Sent Mail” folder
• Better URL detection and wrapping in the HTML editor

Fixes

• %CLEAR macro was not effective in HTML Quick Templates
• “Paste as plain text” was adding extra paragraphs
• Error message when switching between HTML and plain text formats in the editor window
• Opening a URL from an HTML message might have caused crash
• Some non-ASCII characters could be lost when quoted in the HTML editor
• Access Violation error when trying to insert Quick Templates using Ctrl+Space in HTML
• Color combo box was not displayed properly with High DPI modes
• HTML messages could be displayed without embedded images in other email clients
• “Interface not supported” error on some Windows 7 systems
• Keyboard shortcuts from local popup menu in the HTML editor were not active
• “Ignore” was not working in HTML editor spell checker
• Forwarding HTML messages with non-ASCII characters works properly now
• (#02144) Clicking internal links was not working
• HTML code was inserted in the text when forwarding HTML messages
• Original text was quoted when the “Edit as new” command was used
• The issue with non-breaking space characters in the HTML editor was fixed
• Issues with words’ deletion/replacement in HTML editor have been resolved
• Username + password input will no longer appear for accounts with OAUTH authentication