Ritlabs heeft een update voor versie 5 van zijn e-mailprogramma The Bat! uitgebracht. Het programma biedt ondersteuning voor verschillende pop3- en imap4-accounts, en heeft een Bayesiaans spamfilter en uitgebreide zoek- en filtermogelijkheden. The Bat! is verkrijgbaar in de smaken Home en Professional Edition, waarbij studenten en non-profitorganisaties korting op de aanschafprijs krijgen. Thuisgebruikers moeten zoals gebruikelijk ook hun International Pack bijwerken. Het verschil tussen de Pro- en Home-edities wordt op deze pagina uit de doeken gedaan.
In versie 5.0 is onder andere het imap-gedeelte verbeterd, wat het programma stabieler en veiliger moet maken. Daarnaast is de ondersteuning voor plug-ins verbeterd en uitgebreid, is het programma in staat om qr-codes te genereren en te versturen, is er een nieuwe url-manager en maakt The Bat! nu gebruik van de in de Intel Core-processors aanwezige aes-instructieset voor het versnellen van tls en s/mime. Het changelog van deze release ziet er als volgt uit:
New:Changed:
- "Print Preview" - big icon
Fixed:
- (#0009010) It is now possible to enable/disable prompt on printing of multiple messages
- "Messages header" hint design was changed
- URL Hints were redesigned
- "Mark as not Junk" is now moving messages from Junk folder to Inbox as in versions before v5
- Scheduler event could not be auto-deleted after execution
- IMAP. Fixed bug with some servers returning 0 as UIDNEXT (resulting infinite counter update)
- Changed https to http, now redirecting on the techsupport site works properly
- Command line parameter /EXIT does not start program termination before command line processing is finished anymore
- (#0009018) The "&" characters in IMAP folder names are now rendered properly
- Preferences "HTML Viewer" was translated
- Mark as Junk (Mark as Not Junk) cannot raise "List index out of bounds" exception anymore
- Fixed memory corruption when task is executed very fast (short tasks like "Mark message as read")
- (#0009032) Non-MIME forwarding of multiple messages to a single address is not processing wrong messages anymore
- (#0009037) Message list item at start of a branch is now updated immediately when messages are grouped by subject/sender/recipient
- (#0009007) Change of message's colour group while viewing a Virtual Folder is shown immediately
- (#0009041) Problems with HTML message display solved
- IMAP. Appended messages are now fetched from server and cannot be implicitly modified ("Sizes differ!!" error when moving messages between accounts)
- (#0008975) Added right mouse button menu in the message redirect dialogue's address part
- (#0008821) When multiple messages are forwarded, the body does not disappear anymore
- (#0009042) Fixed bug that caused lost spaces in some ill-formed HTML messages
- Fixed problem that did not permit connecting to "localhost" (cannot correctly resolve this host name)
- (#0009021) Message list now supports Quick Search and filtering that uses Unicode characters
- Forwarding multiple messages to a single address from a Common Folder is working correctly
- Fixed "Connection failed" error when failed to connect to the first address of the host with multiple addresses
- (#0009057) Fixed problem when a default account was used without trying to find the most suitable one when replying to messages from Common Folders
- (#0009053) Fixed problems when parent was changed for a newly created folder