Ritlabs heeft versie 7.1.18 Christmas Edition 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. Sinds versie 6.7 zijn er aparte 32bit- en 64bit-downloads, en zijn de Home- en Pro-edities komen te vervallen, ten gunste van een enkele uitvoering. Nieuw in versie 7.1 is onder meer OAuth 2.0-authenticatie voor GMail. De complete changelog van deze uitgave ziet er als volgt uit
New featuresImprovements
- OAuth 2.0 authentication mechanism for GMail and Mail.Ru
- The "Use Address Book display names" option for message list
- "From (Address Book)" and "To (Address Book)" message list columns are now available
- EWS autodiscover logging in the "Create New Account" dialog
- Priority, receipt/reading confirmation options for sending messages from EWS accounts
- EWS accounts: moving and copying messages/items between folders is now possible
- Server-side deletion of messages/items in EWS accounts
- "Load Active Directory contacts" option in the EWS accounts properties
- While retrieving Exchange items via EWS, the company Active Directory contacts are now also retrieved
- "Get only items later than:" option in EWS accounts
Fixes
- When HTTP proxy is defined in The Bat! under "Network\Administration", it overrides operating system’s Internet options
- Sound after finishing search is made optional
- Files’ creation time is used as the received time for messages opened from .EML files
- Search is now working in Virtual Folders
- The "Create New Account" dialog was missing EWS pre-configured settings for some well-known email services
- Registration keys from some HTML messages couldn't be copy-pasted into the key input form, if The Bat! used Windows OS HTML viewer
- The Bat! didn't properly handle Unicode text files and could only load text files in Windows or UTF-8 encoding, not UTF-16. As a result, tips files in UTF-16 could not be displayed
- RSS error unexpected exception EXMLDocError, Details: "Element "content" does not contain a single text node" has been eliminated
- Access violation error upon saving HTML-templates with changes of test formatting in tables has been fixed
- Access violation error, which appeared while copying emails with inline images and Content ID between different accounts has been fixed
- If the user entered a registration key from a previous version, The Bat! did not properly display the program’s version number
- Fixes in displaying of RSS subject lines for those aggregators that treat titles as HTML and second level of encoding may be expected to comply with HTML
- Memory leaks have been eliminated
- Reply-To and In-Reply-To fields in EWS accounts are now properly displayed
- Access violation error message that appeared while downloading external images for HTML emails has been fixed
- Program’s interface could get frozen while retrieving a large number of messages (1000>) with broadband access
- The Bat! didn't import the gender field from tab delimited files to the address book
- Access violation error messages, which appeared in the account log, have been fixed
- Search within the found messages in the Message Finder was not working
- The warning upon opening of more than 5 messages in a separate window at once is functioning again
- (#804): News of RSS-feeds are not displayed correctly