Software-update: The Bat! 12.4

Versie 12.4 van de e-mailclient The Bat! is uitgekomen. Het programma heeft alles wat je van een e-mailclient mag verwachten, zoals het automatisch kunnen sorteren, beantwoorden of doorsturen van e-mail en het met vertraging kunnen versturen van e-mails. Er zijn diverse e-mailthema's, waarbij ook van macro's gebruikgemaakt kan worden. In deze uitgave zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen doorgevoerd:

New features

• Major Calendar rework
• One dialog at shutdown lists every editor holding unsaved data, with per-row save flags
• The shutdown dialog stays on as a progress view until every editor has really closed
• Release history in the update window: per channel, three newest releases open, Expand all
• A manual update check now opens the update window even when your version is the newest
• Mouse wheel scroll step for the HTML/CEF panes, settable in Preferences -> System (up to 99 lines)
• Taskbar badge and tray animation can now count unread in selected folders only
• The template editor offers the RichText editor as well, like the message editor
• Mail Ticker: the "Very fast" scroll speed is now available in the preferences dialog
• The "Colour group" column is painted in the group's own colour, not as plain text
• Thread view: attachments beside the message, a resizable list, documents scaled to their column
• Tab/Shift+Tab indent and outdent a selected block of lines in the plain text and HTML editors
• Classic view pane: every attachment gets a tab; ones nothing can render show a save/open panel
• Thread view: an attached HTML page is rendered (scripts stripped) instead of shown as source
• CardDAV: Google contact labels sync both ways with address book groups (People API)
• CardDAV: sync progress and result shown in the address book; manual sync reports via a toast
• CardDAV: HTTPS via HTTP proxy (CONNECT); without a configured proxy, Windows proxy/PAC/WPAD is used
• Colour emoji in the RichText and plain-text message editors
• Editor: new "Cell background colour" command for tables (popup, Table menu, template editor)
• Colour picker: "Transparent" button for text background and cell background
• Editor status bar: light-yellow "autosaved" state for the modified icon
• Preferences -- Tabs: option to hide the close button on regular tabs
• Message list: rubber-band (lasso) selection by dragging from empty space; Ctrl inverts
• All editors follow Windows Accessibility text cursor thickness and the text cursor indicator
• Connections are re-established after sleep/resume, after a network drop and on going online
• Help|Diagnostincs panel to use diagnostics command line options without command line
• Calendar window: Scheduler section - tasks as cards in four views; Tools|Scheduler opens it
• Calendar window: To Do section is offered by default; to-dos can now pop up a reminder
• Delayed sending: new sortable "Send time" column in the message list
• Text cut with an ellipsis in any list or tree is shown in full in a hint laid over the cell
• Shift+F8 (or Shift+click on the toolbar button) opens the other address book (old/new)
• New address book: import from Outlook, Outlook Express (WAB) and Windows Contacts
• Old address book: Memo column; new address book: contact card sections on one scrolling page
• Tabs: "Shown Tabs" submenu to show/hide tabs; double-click on empty strip opens Configure Tabs
• Pure HTML editor: the status bar shows the caret's line:column
• Exit window: lists everything the exit waits for, with Stop / Save / Discard / Exit immediately
• Toast history: every toast is kept (last 200, across restarts; encrypted with the encrypted layer)
• Notifications window (status bar, tray, Ctrl+Shift+N, Ctrl+click on a toast) with Go to / Copy
• New setting "Maximum quote depth" (default 20) and template macro %MAXQUOTEDEPTH=N

Improvements

• Dialogs laid out for the 12pt form font; captions fit every translation; Tab follows the screen
• Preferences: "Check for beta updates" no longer depends on the update-check mode
• Chromium engine updated from 144 to 151 (CEF 151.3.24)
• Chromium now runs in a dedicated helper process instead of copies of The Bat! itself
• TLS handshake failures now name the signature scheme the server chose
• The embedded browser now runs in its own subprocess host, thebatsubprc.exe
• TLS 1.3: SHA-512 signature schemes are verified, so servers picking them connect
• Connection errors in the log carry their numeric code and a message that says what failed
• POP and IMAP log every failed address of a multi-homed server with its own reason
• IPv6 candidates that the machine cannot use are no longer offered at all
• The update window uses the same control set as the thread view
• The CEF cache is dropped when the CEF version changes, so an upgrade or rollback still starts
• Every translated Format() string is validated at language load; a broken one falls back to English
• "Ignore" in the spell checker applies to every occurrence, in every editor, for the session
• Updates no longer leave a full copy of every previous version in %LOCALAPPDATA%\The Bat!\Main
• PDF viewer window is titled with the attachment name, reused for the same file, and restored
• Address book and mass mailing: silent beeps replaced by toasts that say what went wrong
• Calendar database (Calendar.db) is on by default; Events.CFG is converted on the first start
• Calendar: if Events.CFG changed behind the database's back, the program asks which to keep
• Calendar: repeats more often than daily are left to the scheduler, with a hint where to go
• Spell checker engine updated from hunspell 1.3 to 1.7.5
• Message Headers settings: Yes/No flags switch on click; locked flags explain why
• Message list: rubber-band selection can also start from a row's tree indent
• Tab strip: first/prev/next/last scroller on message list and folder tabs; wheel scrolls by tab
• Address book import: unreadable or empty files are listed with the reason
• Address book: "Add to group" takes several groups; book info counts contacts and groups apart
• Removed the Google ClientLogin import/export (dead since 2015); Google sync via OAuth stays
• CEF panels rebuilt with the new UI design system and the Geist font
• About 80 modal "OK" boxes that only reported an outcome are now non-blocking toasts
• Notifications window: errors red, warnings orange; multi-select copy; no flicker; remembers place
• Conversation view loads thread messages in the background, current message first
• Exit window can be resized; CEF windows no longer wait forever for their page on close
• IMAP: no answer for the whole IDLE period is logged as a warning, not an "account failed" error
• Mail error toasts no longer end with "Click to open the log."

Fixes

• Fixed TLS 1.3 handshakes failing with "decrypt error" on ECDSA P-521 and RSA-PSS SHA-512 servers
• Other applications no longer freeze when opening a file by association while The Bat! is running
• No more white flash when a window opens in a dark theme
• Unreadable text in PDF attachment previews (symbol fonts, lost spaces, ligatures) fixed
• Attachment file names: header encoding setting honoured, RFC 2231 filename* emitted correctly
• RFC 2231 decoding fixed: "_" in names, split filename*0= parameters, per-segment %XX
• Printing and preview of HTML messages: non-UTF-8 parts, inline images, margins on comma locales
• Page margins from Page Setup were ignored until the dialog was reopened
• Mail Ticker no longer sticks to the mouse after a double click
• IMAP command lines shortened to ~900 octets: Courier-IMAP rejected the long ones
• IMAP "Remove duplicates" no longer reports "no folder processing is necessary"
• Notes of deleted duplicate messages are kept and merged into the surviving copy
• SOCKS5: a refused connection was taken for an established one and failed later at random
• An editor with a header field being edited was not counted as unsaved at shutdown
• Pasted tabs were swallowed by the layout in PureHTML messages
• The certificate hint in the account log was clipped at 125% text size
• Fixed heap corruption and crashes in regular expression search and regex filters
• Fixed a crash on moving/copying messages caused by mistranslated Format() strings
• The memo, the tags and the colour group now survive an IMAP move, copy and APPEND
• Fixed tag handles being scrambled across messages when a new tag was created
• Tag menu text is readable on the dark theme; the bogus "( None )" row is gone
• A filtered message list (Unread, Colored...) now refreshes when a change crosses the filter
• Restored Ctrl+Num +/- and Ctrl+MouseWheel zoom in the plain-text message viewer
• *.RTF attachments render in the auto-preview and print correctly again
• Inline pictures survive undo, copying and pasting, and no longer go out twice as strays
• Pictures inside an attached .eml resolve instead of showing as broken images
• A spell correction from the context menu is inserted at the word, not at the line start
• Address auto-completion no longer replaces a whole pasted address while the caret is inside it
• Address book search folds case for Cyrillic, umlauts and accented letters
• Attachment names containing '/' work on drag-and-drop and PDF signing
• The HTML form of the message body is no longer listed as an attachment
• Shift+Tab returns focus to the header from the PureHTML editor, and moves cell-to-cell in tables
• The PureHTML caret no longer stays painted in the body after the editor loses focus
• In corner-mark mode a colour group no longer recolours the text of the whole row or folder name
• The colour group name is drawn with the row's own font and contrast colour
• The active folder no longer borrows the colour group's Normal text colour
• Header fields complete from history again: Subject, To/CC and tags (regression)
• Message editor: closing again after "Cancel" on "Save the message?" no longer does nothing
• Pressing Return at the end of a heading now starts a "Normal" paragraph, not another heading
• PureHTML: dropped text and clicks land on an empty line, not at the end of the line above
• Forwarding or re-editing HTML mail no longer stores every inline picture twice
• Forwarding HTML mail no longer adds a stray Part1.txt attachment
• Thread view: Ctrl+A and Select All select the whole focused message, in any message of a thread
• Pictures attached to a message but referenced by https URL are shown from the message itself
• The "load external resources" bar appears whenever pictures stay hidden, not only while loading
• Thread view: a message whose body is text/xml (or another text/* type) is no longer blank
• XML attachments preview in the thread view whatever their encoding, UTF-16 included
• UTF-16 .txt and .html attachments preview as text instead of garbage
• Attachments with an unknown extension preview as text when their content is text
• Text attachment previews no longer show their content twice
• Thread view: a password-protected PDF opens in the PDF viewer, which asks for the password
• Closing the PDF viewer no longer leaves an empty window behind
• A huge-range spreadsheet preview no longer eats memory until The Bat! dies
• XLSX whose styles omit optional format/font/fill ids previews instead of showing an error
• XLSX currency formats print the symbol (e.g. the rouble sign), not a raw [$P-19] token
• Mass mailing from the address book no longer crashes when the account has no quick templates
• "Start with Windows" no longer keeps launching the old version after an update
• Emoji outside the BMP turned into dots after a draft was closed and reopened
• Plain-text editor: caret, Backspace and Delete no longer split an emoji into broken halves
• Editor: fixed crashes - document background without a picture, Copy format on a table, closing
• Editor: caret no longer jumps to the start of the message after the table properties dialog
• Quick templates: %Cursor lands in the right place in RichText, HTML and plain-text editors
• Quick templates: HTML template converted to plain text no longer gets blank lines between lines
• Editor: autosave no longer stores the same unchanged message on every timer tick
• Saving a message in the editor keeps it focused in the Outbox/Drafts list
• Header editor: opening a field's history list moves focus into the field so the list stays open
• CardDAV/Google: no endless 401 loop, no duplicates after switching book type, no phantom downloads
• CardDAV: request timeout is 60 s (was 60000 s); TLS handshake no longer hangs
• CEF: first HTML message after start no longer waits ~4 s (Chrome omnibox preload disabled)
• CEF: mouse wheel scrolling no longer stalls while the message page is busy
• Every PGP/MIME send left the plaintext copy of the message in %TEMP%; it is now deleted
• Empty bat*.tmp files piled up in %TEMP% until no message could be sent ("not relayed")
• Other temp-file leaks closed: Save As, encrypted backup restore, external-program filter, GnuPG
• ZIP and other binary attachments could go out raw, without Content-Transfer-Encoding
• TLS/S/MIME: a trusted root marked CA:FALSE no longer refuses the chain (RFC 5280 6.1)
• Undeletable empty messages dated 1 Jan 1970 (damaged index records) are now marked and removable
• IMAP Outbox kept counting a message after a reply was sent from it
• IMAP: the last message of a folder lost its colour group on servers that store no keywords
• IMAP: unsubscribing on mail.ru did not stick; the folder is now hidden locally, with a notice
• IMAP folder manager: Gmail subscription glitches ([Gmail], \Noselect, last folder of a batch)
• Folder maintenance hung on accounts that never connect; second run showed no progress/0 folders
• Folder repair reported "Unlisted error FFFFFF85" for IMAP folders that have no local copy yet
• Reply/forward of a decrypted message quoted the ciphertext or nothing; now the decrypted text
• HTML-to-text: nested quotes kept ('>' per level) and doubled line breaks fixed
• Quoting a light-theme HTML message turned the dark-theme HTML editor white
• Thread view: no Decrypt button for S/MIME messages whose smime.p7m is not the first part
• Start-up stalled behind the splash when the program was launched without getting focus
• Blank or wrong HTML editor toolbar buttons and status bar selection-mode icons
• HTML editor selected text while the styled scroll bar thumb was dragged
• HTML editor: Enter on the last visible line did not scroll the caret into view
• Message editor header rows (To, Subject...) back to their earlier, more compact height
• Address book: wrong group member counts after deleting contacts; blank "New message to" items
• SmartBat: right-click on a misspelled word now shows suggestions and dictionary items
• SmartBat window drifted right on every start with the taskbar on the left
• Crashes fixed: on exit after a memo or a closed editor window, on OK in Preferences
• Tools|Scheduler was empty with the calendar database off; a save could turn an event into a task
• Calendar reminders were not shown at all in release builds with the calendar database on
• Program stopped responding: scheduler queue filled with copies of the mail-resend task
• A daily scheduler task ran a day after program start instead of at its start time
• Delayed sending: deleting one draft could cancel another message's delayed send
• Delayed sending: changing or removing the delay in the editor was not rescheduled on save
• Delayed sending: send times in the past or after 2300 are refused with a reason
• Spell check: user dictionary ignored when the mail directory path has non-ASCII characters
• Decrypt command said "not encrypted" on a message the security button could decrypt
• Read confirmations: skipped when marked read by hand or in the thread view; repeated on re-read
• Outbox: flags and priority could not be changed (Ctrl+G and the Flags submenu did nothing)
• Message editor: a priority or receipt-request change alone was dropped on close without asking
• Message base: index user flags were never saved
• Saved messages showed "Modified" 30.12.1899 until the folder was read again
• A changed autosave interval was ignored by editors already open
• Switching Plain/RichText/PureHTML lost caret and selection; RichText duplicated selected text
• Plain-text editor: %Cursor put the caret in the wrong place (soft wrap, tabs, selection)
• HTML editor: Insert Table crashed in an empty new message and did not mark it modified
• Forward/quote: absolutely positioned HTML (e.g. SAP forms) jumped out of the quoted block
• Addresses tab listed deleted messages regardless of "Show deleted"
• View → Headers checks did not match the headers shown after header settings were saved
• CEF preview ignored header "scroll" flags and View > Headers > Show; Edit headers did nothing
• Thread view: PDF preview, chat bubbles and Markdown viewer dropped the selection on mouseup
• Message list avatars: edited contacts not refreshed; GIF/BMP photos showed another contact
• Address book INI import found nothing in files exported by The Bat! itself (UTF-8 BOM)
• Address book sync: Google labels over 1000 contacts refused at every sync; wrong upload counts
• Address book: crash on exit during sync; "Invalid pointer operation" in the new book's dialogs
• New address book could keep The Bat! running hidden after exit
• New address book: "All files (*.*)" in the import dialog ran the Outlook import
• New account wizard: login was cut to the part before '@' instead of the full address
• Tabs: middle-click on empty space crashed; "Switch to" was always empty; hidden tabs came back
• Tabs: "Close All Quick Search Tabs" closed the wrong tabs; the scroller jerked back and forth
• Fixed The Bat! staying in the tray forever on exit when something was still running
• Fixed filter auto-replies stopping for every account after an IMAP queue lost its connection
• Fixed conversation view and editor freezing for minutes on long reply chains
• Fixed IMAP full-download sync spending 20-47 min per folder just queuing message downloads
• SMTP "Server reply -" with nothing after it now says why there was no reply
• Fixed restoring deleted message groups asking the "delete groups" question
• Exit window: a stuck filter no longer shows "last activity 0 s ago"; it says what it waits for
• Toasts no longer take the focus from the window you are working in
• Fixed a crash when the editor's properties were refreshed before it was fully set up
• Fixed thread messages being loaded twice (and the first copy leaked) in the conversation view
• System Resnd mail event was leaking resources

Versienummer	12.4
Releasestatus	Final
Besturingssystemen	Windows 10, Windows 11
Website	Ritlabs
Download	https://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/download.php
Licentietype	Betaald