The Bat! 8.8.2

The Bat! mail client has a lot of vital benefits and useful features that make your email experience simple and convenient. All these features perfectly fit any Windows OS. Moreover, The Bat! is the first and only email client Certified for Windows Vista by Microsoft Corporation. “Certified for Vista” logo guarantees the highest level of compatibility between Vista and The Bat! mechanisms.

The Bat!’s characteristic feature is the most widespread support of authentication protocols and of encryption while working with mail servers.

The other side of safety is protection against malicious codes. The Bat! benefits of its own HTML viewing mechanism – Robin HTML Viewer, as well as of its own image viewing module.

Enhanced playback performance:
Supports 24-bit, 32-bit high-quality sound addition.
Support for additional audio codecs for various audio formats.
Support for MusePak 7, Monkey's lossless codec.
Improved external codec stability.
Improvement of function:
Remove GOM Remote popup and Subtitle Search window.
We will provide better function in the future.
Provides tooltip for playback location when mouse over on the GOM Player Touch Skin Controller.
When installing the GOM Player, add the WEBM file icon to the GOM Player.
Change the default setting of the 'Maintain play speed' option from 'Do not keep' to 'Keep'.
Removed 'Uninstall' tap in Preferences.
VOC and Bug Fixes:
Fixed an error related to Sub size in control window in version 2.3.12.
Fixed an play time error-related in MKV file.
Fixed an crash error in list-related in A-B repeat window.
Fixed a problem in GOM Remote, VR 360 guide notation.
Modify the menu to appear when you right-click on the mini-web and the bottom text ad area.
Fixed Layered Windows subtitle guidelines in BorderlessMode.
Fixed BorderlessMode afterimage problem.
Fixed a problem where VSUtil was not deleted when uninstalling.

# Improvements
- Increased speed of entering a folder or sorting messages in the list by "From/To/Subject" columns if there are only Latin characters. The speed increase is mostly noticeable in folders with more than 100 thousand messages.
- If you have Account|Properties|Verbose log turned on, then The Bat!, on the "Send queued mail" command will write addition information to the log: on total number of messages in the outbox, and on the number that has not been selected for sending because of "parked" or "sending" status.
- The Bat! can log Simple MAPI calls. To enable logging, do the following. Uder "HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWARERITThe Bat!" add DWORD value named "LogMapiCalls", value "1". Then, restart The Bat!. After that, The Bat! will create mapi_log.txt file in the %EMAIL% directory and will append lines to it every time an application like MS Word or MSIE wants to send a message or do any other MAPI function.
- Welcome message (in "Inbox") is no longer used for IMAP accounts.
- MD5 hash has been removed from the S/MIME preferences.
- When non-OpenPGP mode is selected, the PGP menu items in the message editor are hidden.
- The Bat! didn't highlight addresses with equal sign ("=") in the local-part. If such addresses were displayed in the headers, there were no menus to carry out operations over them such as adding to the address book.
- Import S/MIME certificates(s) from a signed message didn't always work.
- Default print margins are now 0.25 (quarter) inch.
# Fixes
- Malformed account transport settings on high resolution monitors.
- Untranslatable tooltips in the print preview.
- Fixed several memory leaks: when deleting messages, when working with the text editor and the spell checker.
- Unable to start The Bat! if on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) setup had been cancelled.
- Better error handling of The Bat! version checking via DNS, sometimes invalid responses could cause an Access Violation error.
- Opening mail shows error popup "TMailMessage.FindIdx --- ALREADY DESTROYED!" (Fixed "ALREADY DESTROYED!" or "METHOD CALLED ON FREED OBJECT!" errors when selecting different folders on IMAP while The Bat! filters messages on IMAP).
- Fixed an Access Violation error at start related to Quick Reply, also fixed the "ClassName: EComponentError / Message: A component named __ already exists" error related to quick reply.
- Messages arrived to an IMAP folder aren't filtered if they arrive while other messages are filtered.
- If an IMAP filter has multiple actions, sometimes only some of them are executed.
- Minor speed increase when working with internal hash structures.
- The Bat! didn't properly support character encodings when working with HunSpell dictionaries, e.g. the Latvian special symbols are replaced with Cyrillic symbols in the Spell Checker.
- Filtering on IMAP stops with an Access Violation error while setting color groups.
- Drop-downs on the main toolbar have areas with no reaction to mouse clicks.
- Editor text color and search highlight text colors were hardcoded as "black" and "white", while they had to take colors from Windows system colors (Themes).
- There was an error when trying to run The Bat! while another The Bat! process didn't exit for some reason.
- Automatic filters stop working altogether for certain IMAP folders, restarting didn't help, newly arrived messages were not filtered too.
- Wrong size of fonts in print preview and the printed message (in tags like "small").
- Print preview looks OK but the final print is not formatted properly.
- The HTML is viewed OK but in print or print preview, margins are incorrectly calculated and the text is trimmed at the right.
- There were redundant right and bottom margins on printed pages.
- Searching for messages using the mid: links in other folders didn't work since 5.0.36.2 released on 02-Mar-2012.
- If there were national characters in mailto: url and The Bat! was set as a default mailto: handler, these national characters were replaced to question marks. As a result, description of web-pages with national characters sent from browsers appears as question marks in Subject.
- Filling the background color of table cells fails.
- "Minus" closing buttons in the message finder didn't scale on high-definition monitors; besides that, these buttons were two pixels higher than needed.
- OpenPGP Error Window does not show national characters.
- Truncated text field in QR-Code Generator (German GUI).
- Decryption of an email with large attachment takes much time if internal OpenPGP implementation is used.
- If you collapse an account in the folder tree and restart The Bat!, this account again becomes expanded, if you had clicked the folder tabs before
- The Bat! didn't start on single-processor single-core computers, it gave an Access Violation error.
- Fixed an access violation error on exit that could prevent from saving toolbar configuration data.
- There were an error after closing a separate window that shows an HTML message and opening it again and clicking to load external images while using The Bat! HTML viewer.
- The printed text is tiny, although the print preview is ok.
- IMG ALT was printed with tiny font.
- Image can not be pasted into HTML message by context menu.
- Captions of some character set names weren't translatable.
- Stopping search in the Message finder gives access violation in IMAP accounts.
- Print preview looks OK but the final print is not formatted properly - becomes excessively wide and cropped at the right (unless external images are loaded).
- The printed font is smaller than expected.
- Margin size adjustment controls (blue) didn't show in the print preview if the window was opened maximized.
- Support for modern GnuPG 2.1.
- PGP 10.4 was not supported.
- The Bat! crashes while copying tables in MS Excel.
- MaliSendMailW gave access violation errors.
- 64-bit Simple MAPI handler DLL gave access violation errors.

# Improvements
- Increased speed of entering a folder or sorting messages in the list by "From/To/Subject" columns if there are only Latin characters. The speed increase is mostly noticeable in folders with more than 100 thousand messages.
- If you have Account|Properties|Verbose log turned on, then The Bat!, on the "Send queued mail" command will write addition information to the log: on total number of messages in the outbox, and on the number that has not been selected for sending because of "parked" or "sending" status.
- The Bat! can log Simple MAPI calls. To enable logging, do the following. Uder "HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWARERITThe Bat!" add DWORD value named "LogMapiCalls", value "1". Then, restart The Bat!. After that, The Bat! will create mapi_log.txt file in the %EMAIL% directory and will append lines to it every time an application like MS Word or MSIE wants to send a message or do any other MAPI function.
- Welcome message (in "Inbox") is no longer used for IMAP accounts.
- MD5 hash has been removed from the S/MIME preferences.
- When non-OpenPGP mode is selected, the PGP menu items in the message editor are hidden.
- The Bat! didn't highlight addresses with equal sign ("=") in the local-part. If such addresses were displayed in the headers, there were no menus to carry out operations over them such as adding to the address book.
- Import S/MIME certificates(s) from a signed message didn't always work.
- Default print margins are now 0.25 (quarter) inch.
# Fixes
- Malformed account transport settings on high resolution monitors.
- Untranslatable tooltips in the print preview.
- Fixed several memory leaks: when deleting messages, when working with the text editor and the spell checker.
- Unable to start The Bat! if on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) setup had been cancelled.
- Better error handling of The Bat! version checking via DNS, sometimes invalid responses could cause an Access Violation error.
- Opening mail shows error popup "TMailMessage.FindIdx --- ALREADY DESTROYED!" (Fixed "ALREADY DESTROYED!" or "METHOD CALLED ON FREED OBJECT!" errors when selecting different folders on IMAP while The Bat! filters messages on IMAP).
- Fixed an Access Violation error at start related to Quick Reply, also fixed the "ClassName: EComponentError / Message: A component named __ already exists" error related to quick reply.
- Messages arrived to an IMAP folder aren't filtered if they arrive while other messages are filtered.
- If an IMAP filter has multiple actions, sometimes only some of them are executed.
- Minor speed increase when working with internal hash structures.
- The Bat! didn't properly support character encodings when working with HunSpell dictionaries, e.g. the Latvian special symbols are replaced with Cyrillic symbols in the Spell Checker.
- Filtering on IMAP stops with an Access Violation error while setting color groups.
- Drop-downs on the main toolbar have areas with no reaction to mouse clicks.
- Editor text color and search highlight text colors were hardcoded as "black" and "white", while they had to take colors from Windows system colors (Themes).
- There was an error when trying to run The Bat! while another The Bat! process didn't exit for some reason.
- Automatic filters stop working altogether for certain IMAP folders, restarting didn't help, newly arrived messages were not filtered too.
- Wrong size of fonts in print preview and the printed message (in tags like "small").
- Print preview looks OK but the final print is not formatted properly.
- The HTML is viewed OK but in print or print preview, margins are incorrectly calculated and the text is trimmed at the right.
- There were redundant right and bottom margins on printed pages.
- Searching for messages using the mid: links in other folders didn't work since 5.0.36.2 released on 02-Mar-2012.
- If there were national characters in mailto: url and The Bat! was set as a default mailto: handler, these national characters were replaced to question marks. As a result, description of web-pages with national characters sent from browsers appears as question marks in Subject.
- Filling the background color of table cells fails.
- "Minus" closing buttons in the message finder didn't scale on high-definition monitors; besides that, these buttons were two pixels higher than needed.
- OpenPGP Error Window does not show national characters.
- Truncated text field in QR-Code Generator (German GUI).
- Decryption of an email with large attachment takes much time if internal OpenPGP implementation is used.
- If you collapse an account in the folder tree and restart The Bat!, this account again becomes expanded, if you had clicked the folder tabs before.
- The Bat! didn't start on single-processor single-core computers, it gave an Access Violation error.
- Fixed an access violation error on exit that could prevent from saving toolbar configuration data.
- There were an error after closing a separate window that shows an HTML message and opening it again and clicking to load external images while using The Bat! HTML viewer.
- The printed text is tiny, although the print preview is ok.
- IMG ALT was printed with tiny font.
- Image can not be pasted into HTML message by context menu.
- Captions of some character set names weren't translatable.
- Stopping search in the Message finder gives access violation in IMAP accounts.
- Print preview looks OK but the final print is not formatted properly - becomes excessively wide and cropped at the right (unless external images are loaded).
- The printed font is smaller than expected.
- Margin size adjustment controls (blue) didn't show in the print preview if the window was opened maximized.
- Support for modern GnuPG 2.1.
- PGP 10.4 was not supported.

# Improvements
- Increased speed of entering a folder or sorting messages in the list by "From/To/Subject" columns if there are only Latin characters. The speed increase is mostly noticeable in folders with more than 100 thousand messages
- Welcome message (in "Inbox") is no longer used for IMAP accounts
- MD5 hash has been removed from the S/MIME preferences
- When non-OpenPGP mode is selected, the PGP menu items in the message editor are hidden
- The Bat! didn't highlight addresses with equal sign ("=") in the local-part. If such addresses were displayed in the headers, there were no menus to carry out operations over them such as adding to the address book
- Import S/MIME certificates(s) from a signed message didn't always work
# Fixes
- Malformed account transport settings on high resolution monitors
- Untranslatable tooltips in the print preview
- Fixed several memory leaks: when deleting messages, when working with the text editor and the spell checker
- Unable to start The Bat! if on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) setup had been cancelled
- Better error handling of The Bat! version checking via DNS, sometimes invalid responses could cause an Access Violation error
- Opening mail shows error popup "TMailMessage.FindIdx --- ALREADY DESTROYED!" (Fixed "ALREADY DESTROYED!" or "METHOD CALLED ON FREED OBJECT!" errors when selecting different folders on IMAP while The Bat! filters messages on IMAP)
- Fixed an Access Violation error at start related to Quick Reply, also fixed the "ClassName: EComponentError / Message: A component named __ already exists" error related to quick reply
- Messages arrived to an IMAP folder aren't filtered if they arrive while other messages are filtered
- If an IMAP filter has multiple actions, sometimes only some of them are executed
- Minor speed increase when working with internal hash structures
- The Bat! didn't properly support character encodings when working with HunSpell dictionaries, e.g. the Latvian special symbols are replaced with Cyrillic symbols in the Spell Checker
- Filtering on IMAP stops with an Access Violation error while setting color groups
- Drop-downs on the main toolbar have areas with no reaction to mouse clicks
- Editor text color and search highlight text colors were hardcoded as "black" and "white", while they had to take colors from Windows system colors (Themes)
- There was an error when trying to run The Bat! while another The Bat! process didn't exit for some reason
- Automatic filters stop working altogether for certain IMAP folders, restarting didn't help, newly arrived messages were not filtered too
- Wrong size of fonts in print preview and the printed message (in tags like "small")
- Print preview looks OK but the final print is not formatted properly
- The HTML is viewed OK but in print or print preview, margins are incorrectly calculated and the text is trimmed at the right
- There were redundant right and bottom margins on printed pages
- Searching for messages using the mid: links in other folders didn't work since 5.0.36.2 released on 02-Mar-2012
- If there were national characters in mailto: url and The Bat! was set as a default mailto: handler, these national characters were replaced to question marks. As a result, description of web-pages with national characters sent from browsers appears as question marks in Subject.
- Filling the background color of table cells fails
- "Minus" closing buttons in the message finder didn't scale on high-definition monitors; besides that, these buttons were two pixels higher than needed
- OpenPGP Error Window does not show national characters
- Truncated text field in QR-Code Generator (German GUI)
- Decryption of an email with large attachment takes much time if internal OpenPGP implementation is used
- If you collapse an account in the folder tree and restart The Bat!, this account again becomes expanded, if you had clicked the folder tabs before
- Support for modern GnuPG 2.1
- PGP 10.4 was not supported

# Fixes
- Smilies were not scaled on high DPI.
- There was no "Synchronize" pop-up menu item for Google address books.
- Print Pictures from internal viewer: aspect ratio was not maintained with large pictures.
- Print Pictures from internal viewer: large pictures were printed twice.
- 7.2 (64-bit) Some graphics appeared extraordinarily large in the preview pane.
- In message preview pane the PNG of a HTML message had black background.
- Fixed an access violation when viewing HTML messages with images (could be reproduced when changing message zoom back and forth by scrolling the mouse wheel), introduced in 7.3.12.29.
- Downloaded images into message body were not scaled.
- 7.2 (64-bit) GIFs were broken in the Preview pane.
- Animated GIFs didn't work in version 7.4.

# New features
- Improved speed, reduced CPU use and decreased GUI latency on receiving messages via POP3 and sending via SMTP
- /BENCHMARK_STARTUP_TIME displays time passed to start The Bat!, in milliseconds
# Improvements
- Improved speed of folder checking on MAPI
- Improved speed of checking for new message via MAPI in large folders
- Splash screen now uses default UI font
- Changed CSS length values for "ex" (was 1/1.3 of "em", now 1/2 of "em") and for cm&mm (was 1/2.52 of inch, now 1/2.54 of inch) - in accordance with https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#length-units
- If a tbuser.def file is larger than 500K, it is not loaded but renamed to .bak instead
- Plugins are now loaded at startup from a separate thread. In The Bat! version 5.0, has performed time-consuming startup routines (like loading of plug-ins, parsing of interface definition files) in parallel threads. The performance boost was noticeable even on old single-core CPUs, because disk and processor operations were running simultaneously; while on multi-core CPUs and multiprocessor systems the boost was even higher because computations could run in parallel, without one affecting another. In version 6.0, plugins weren’t loaded from a separate thread, but from the main thread. This is now fixed and plugin loading is now the same as it was in 5.0.
- Optimized IMAP work with multiple connections. When there are several idle connections, and there were need to work with another folder, The Bat! could use a connection that had INBOX selected; now connection with INBOX will only be used if no other connections are available
- dlNSpellLanguages is displayed when the user have selected too many languages for spell checking, in this case, the status bar didn't manage to display all the languages and there were a bug that other status bar items were hidden
# Fixes
- "Message filtered counter" window element partially hidden in Filter Mail
- Wrong wrapping in the message boxes
- For HTML/plain text and HTML only editor modes after paste a link an unexpected space is added
- For Plain Text (Windows) editor mode after paste a link a selection remains
- MAPI tasks could give access violations on errors or if the user cancels them
- Photo area is too small in address book contact's properties
- Fixed "Thread Error: The handle is invalid" on HTML spell checkers
- Fixed a bug in spellchecker introduced in version 6.8.0.5 (05-May-2015)
- Selected color for even rows was incorrect
- Buttons' height in HTML didn't scale
- Incorrectly underlined text in the internal HTML viewer
- Improved speed of folder checking on MAPI
- Truncated line in "OptionsPreferencesMessage List"
- Fixed a vertical scroll bar in Preferences | Message List
- Items in User Preferences and Address Entry Editor dialog were misaligned
- CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) characters were too big and didn't fit the interface sometimes, didn't look good
- Fixed the "Address Book photo width/height is mis-sized" error while adding new image for address book on high-resolution monitor
- Controls in the Account Properties form were misaligned
- Photos in the address book didn't scale properly
- The Bat! didn't delete TMP files older than 1 months (since version 5)
- If there were more than 2GB of total mail on the server during POP3 retrieval, total received size was displayed incorrect (negative) in the connection center; the word "bytes" was used twice there.
- Some dialog elements in the Account Properties, Folder Properties, Address Entry weren't properly aligned or sized with high-DPI settings in various dialogs (on high-definition displays)
- The pie chart didn't paint correctly in the connection center
- In URLs, the ampersand parameter delimiter gets percent-encoded as %26, rather than encoded as an HTML entity
- URLs with ampersands are incorrectly opened in the HTML editor after you reopen it
- Message list column width and attachments' icon too small (on high-definition displays)
- Small check boxes and overlapping buttons in text search (on high-definition displays)
- Splitters are not scaled (on high-definition displays)
- Not enough room for headers fields on the header pane (on high-definition displays)
- Message list nodes are too small (on high-definition displays)
- Address book icons truncated on 4K monitors (on high-definition displays)
- Toolbar buttons do not scale according to higher DPI setting (on high-definition displays)
- The status bar gripper is too small (on high-definition displays)
- Account/folder nodes and the respective lines are barely seen (on high-definition displays)
- Truncated font size drop-down menu in the HTML editor (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny icons in the message editor window (on high-definition displays)
- Scheduler Event via Sorting Office action doesn't look good (on high-definition displays)
- Narrow default column width in the Maintenance Center (on high-definition displays)
- Splitters are not scaled (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny font in the account information tab (on high-definition displays)
- Attachment panel is too narrow on high-resolution monitors, the icons don't fit, a scroll bar appears
- Editor/Viewer header layout uses an old font by default when you run fresh install of The Bat! under modern OS. For example, if you run The Bat! first time under Windows 10, it will set Tahoma 8, but should have set Segoe UI 9 or similar
- Issues with QR-Code Generator (on high-definition displays)
- Disappearing buttons in dialog Edit Event | Categories on high-definition display (on high-definition displays)
- The color of the even row of the quoted text is not purple as it used to be in The Bat! version 1 (purple)
- The font didn't get updated in the address headers in the message preview and the open message editor, after the user have changed the font in the Preferences dialog.
- The status bar gripper is too small (on high-definition displays)
- Changes in look and feel of the nodes and lines in the message list and folder tree
- The text in the splash screen was truncated under 300% DPI or more (on high-definition displays)
- High-contrast themes with large dpi (300% or more) didn't draw enlarged tree node glyph (plus/minus sign in a square), it was very small and not scaled (on high-definition displays)
- Narrow default column width in the Maintenance Center (on high-definition displays)
- Splitters didn't use system-defined colors, used a fixed color instead that ignored color schemes
- For certain widths of the header columns, in the message list, the ellipses became visible (mostly on high-definition monitors)
- Tiny and overlapping "next" and "last" buttons below the message body (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny "first/last" and "next/previous" buttons for the message list tabs (on high-definition displays)
- Account/folder tree tabs are tiny and overlap (on high-definition displays)
- Mouse cursor shows the "forbidden" sign if the user opens contact properties using double-click
- The Bat! could not complete the "Exit" command (the main window became inoperable after you close it) after you have created an account and tested connectivity to SMTP in the new account wizard
- Images are printed with the template
- SmartBat: Printed Text uses print templates for mails when printing via Print Preview
- If Quick Reply is enabled in the Message Finder, the Results tab becomes empty
- Tiny progress bar in Message Finder (F7) (on high-definition displays)
- Scheduler Event via Sorting Office action was displayed incorrectly (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny close buttons in the message list tabs incorrectly (on high-definition displays)
- Quick Reply pane is small (on high-definition displays)
- Grayed out items (like IMAP messages that weren't loaded) in the message list didn't scale
- Buttons didn't scale in the address grid of the message editor (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny contents of the OAUTH window (on high-definition displays)
- Internal HTML viewer didn’t scale logical pixels properly to physical pixels (on high-definition displays)
- The letter "g" does not fit on the search pane in the separate message viewer and in message finder (F7)
- Attachments' size turns 0 bytes after editing an email for the second time
- The mail ticker didn't scale (on high-definition displays)
- When resolution and display scaling is increased, the text gets unreadable in the address book (on high-definition displays)
- Selection color becomes invalid in the message list and in the Connection Center
- The widths of the status bar elements in the Message Finder and in the Connection Center didn't scale on high-definition monitors
- Sorting Office columns too narrow (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny conditions' drop-down arrows in Sorting Office (on high-definition displays)
- Filter text in Sorting Office always black
- AV errors on exit if an image was opened in an IMAP account
- Sorting office - filters that set colour groups always use blue text
- Spell-checker-specific underline (red) are not scaled for high resolution
- Check boxes were truncated at the bottom when UI font 9pt was used in the Message List Tabs editor dialog
- The radio buttons did overlap in the print preview window
- Access Violation error after compacting address books
- The Bat! could only allow compressing an address book when there were at least 1% of free space; the user could not compress the address book when there were less free space, e.g. only one entry deleted, which is not good from the security or privacy point of view
- Errors on compressing address books while On-The-Fly encryption was on
- Memory corruption on compacting address books with photos or certificates
- Message header names were top-aligned in the Message Editor
- Numbered list - Description is missing
- Removed import/export address entries from Google and Synchronize popup item from Google address books created earlier
- Print Preview: Two groups of option boxes did exclude each other
- URLs are not displayed as hyperlinks in Windows Editor
- Access Violation while starting The Bat (related to quick reply)
- "List index out of bounds" error message in the HTML-editor
- Clicking anywhere in the message body opens mail.ru sign-in page
- Access violation when working with 64-bit plugins, for example when clicking learn spam/learn ham plugin on the toolbar
- The main menu command Folder|Check for viruses was removed in 6.3.0.5 - now put back
- Cleanup for possible multiple "List index out of bounds" error messages while editing/moving/undo/redo and tracking mouse in editor
- Fixed an Access Violation when running The Bat! for the first time and creating an account with empty account password
- An IMAP connection went to Inbox between other commands, when it was not needed. A connection should only go to Inbox when there are no pending tasks at all, so all the connections are idle. There were a bug in determining whether a connection is idle, so it went to INBOX over and over again between executing other commands. You could observe it in the IMAP protocol log
- The Bat! didn't exit properly if the user had tags configured
- The Bat! didn't support "Priority: non-urgent" (see RFC-4021 section 2.1.54)
- Connection center labels were occasionally deleted in The Bat! 5.0.18.12 (23-Jul-2011) - now restored.