The Bat! 8.8.2

# New features
- Support of the EWS protocol to connect to MS Exchange Server 2007 and later versions
- Support of the CardDAV protocol to synchronize address books
- New dialog to create new accounts. Supports server settings auto-configuration
# Improvements
- A warning is given to the user when a password to the mail server contains leading or trailing spaces or control characters. The Bat! does not allow using such passwords
# Fixes
- Quick Search in Quick Template editor was case sensitive
- Opening links from a task in the Scheduler with message URLs was not functioning
- Messages' Received Date and Time were not imported from a UNIX-mailbox
- No error box in editor window upon sending a message (SMTP protocol) in case The Bat! could not connect to the server
- An error which appeared upon closing address book properties after compacting has been fixed
- Slowdowns in the message editor when replying with HTML have been eliminated
- The Bat! didn't detect Windows 10 in the version macros and other places that display the current version of the operating system

# Fixes
- Quick Search in Quick Template editor was case sensitive
- Opening links from a SmartBat scheduler was not working with message URLs

# Improvements
* Drag-and-drop folder targets for copying messages are now stored into the folder history of Copy/Move operations
# Fixes
* Fixed improper thread handling that might cause a message "Thread creation error: Not enough storage is available to process this command" or other problems
* Clicking a group in freshly imported Google Contacts caused AV error
* Strip attachments option of the "Create formatted message" filter action was ignored when the template was empty
* Postponed messages generated by filters were not shown as postponed in Outbox
* International Domain Names weren't always translated in headers
* Estonian dictionary was not recognizing words with national (non-ASCII) characters
* Various problems with running automatic re-filtering with scheduler events
* Connection center "always" option didn't work
* MAPI option didn't show for new accounts
* Radio buttons weren't translated in 6.8.2
* Installer did show improper messages about the version 6.8.2

# New features
- Accounts can now be associated with Color Groups
- Incoming filters are now working for RSS Feeds
- The "Create New Account" dialog will hide MAPI from the list of protocols if none is detected in the current system
- You can configure The Bat! to not specify the %EMAIL% variable by running it with the /DontWriteEmailEnvironmentVariable command line parameter, or by setting the DWORD DontWriteEmailEnvironmentVariable variable to 1 under HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareRITThe Bat!
- An animated indicator has been added to in the "Create New Account" dialog
# Improvements
- Timing log for the Exchange accounts
- The Bat! will ignore IPF.NOTE.SOCIALCONNECTOR, IPF.NOTE.OUTLOOKHOMEPAGE, IPF.ShortcutFolder, Outlook.Reminder folder types while interacting with the Exchange server via MAPI
- The "User name" label has been renamed to "Mailbox name" in MAPI accounts to differentiate it from the user name used for authentication
- Better logging of certificate errors in TLS
# Fixes
- Fixed a bug that might have caused access violation or incorrect behavior when forwarding messages with HTML parts from using Sorting Office filters
- Caching was allowed for downloading RSS feeds, causing no-update issues on some servers
- Ctrl+Ins shortcut was not working after selection of all text using Ctrl+A in the message viewer
- Possible errors of the 64-bit version have been fixed
- Opening a "mailto" URL from a common folder did not choose an appropriate active account for the new message
- ORFO 2014 options were neither visible nor accessible
- The Bat! could not use 64-bit spell checkers via the CSAPI interface. For example, it could not use ORFO and returned an access violation error in The Bat! 64-bit version
- GnuPG did not work with the 64-bit version of The Bat!
- The Bat! 64-bit did not work with eToken
- Address History could show duplicate messages when the "scan subfolders" option was used
- Deleting a MAPI account and requesting to "Delete account files" did not clean up all the files
- Safer way of loading the GROUPS.CFG (GROUPS.EFG) in case this file is damaged or improperly decrypted
- If the interface language was set to U.S. English some British English words were still used
- Next message group could be not selected upon deletion of a message group
- Fixed slowdowns in address history
- Fixed slowdowns in getting messages from MS Exchange servers via extended MAPI

# Improvements
- Now The Bat! gives details when something is wrong with the registration key, i.e. it gives different messages when the key is revoked, copied incorrectly, is valid for newer or previous versions, etc.

#Fixes
- In the 64-bit version of The Bat!, the "Edit personal certificates" dialog in the account properties didn't open
- An exception in the Connection Centre that could happen when exiting The Bat! while having active send/receive connections which were in process of connecting to a server has been fixed
- The Bat! could sometimes give the "No random handler defined" error at startup
- The quick reply field didn't allow to navigate throughout the window using the Tab/Shift+Tab keys
- An empty quick reply field, with just a couple of whitespace characters did anyway call the confirmation window
- The Bat! didn't display an appropriate error message when the user tried to create an account with ":" or space characters in the name
- Some labels in the Connection Centre had invalid height, letters being truncated at the bottom
- Incorrect URL for the Ritlabs homepage is shown in the Control panelDefault programs
- The mass mailing function could not send messages in the HTML format
- The "Redirect a Message" window didn't remember its position and the position of the split panels
- Opening mail from file system and viewing attached .eml file could give an "Access Violation" error
- The message editor window didn't properly handle groups of attachments: Ctrl+A didn't work, deleting a group of attachments invoked a query for each of the attachments
- MultiSMTP dialogs were untranslatable
- Improper positioning of an item in the S/MIME and TLS Preferences dialog
- Captions were truncated in the SMTP authentication options
- Truncated Birthday input field in the address book entry editor

# New features
* A new set of emoticons. They are used in electronic communication to represent
* MAPI connections are now automatically checked in the "Create New Account" window
# Fixes
* English help file was missing in the v6.7.20 installation package
* Minor improvements in the "Create New Account" window for MAPI accounts
* The Bat! failed to create MAPI accounts if the domain and the username had been separated by a backslash
* External PGP might not work in v6.7.20
* In some IMAP accounts with non-English interface language of The Bat! duplicate system folders (e.g. Outbox) could appear

# New features
- German online help
- Polish online help
- Quick Date Range selection drop-down in the Message Finder
- It is now possible to compact address book (ABD) files from the Address Book properties dialogue
# Improvements
- 64-bit *.MSI creates separate Add/Remove program entries for 32-bit and 64-bit MAPI handler. The 32-bit one is default to make it possible to send documents via The Bat! from a 64-bit MS Office Word
- Message Tags are now displayed in the Preview Pane's header
- Since version 6.4 The Bat! offered to create a mail data directory in %APPDATA%The Bat!MAIL; now it creates mail data directory in %APPDATA%The Bat! as it did before
- From now on, Hunspell looks for dictionaries in the “Speller” subfolder, not in the “dictionaries” subfolder of the program folder (i.e. the folder where thebat.exe is located). User word lists were searched in the %EMAIL%dictionaries folder; now it searches in the %EMAIL%UserDics folder by default (although the old folder is also searched). It is now possible to copy full dictionaries, not just user word lists to the “UserDics” folder and The Bat! will also find them there
- Updated Root CA certificates
# Fixes
- The Message Finder searched for answered messages instead of unanswered
- Some cosmetic fixes in the New Account dialogue
- Root CA certificates could duplicate in the address book
- Previous version didn't install elliptic curve root certificates to the default Root CA address book
- Multiple Error messages when a user with limited privileges tried to open the Options|Preferences dialogue
- On IMAP accounts, for partially downloaded messages, plain text parts were combined with text/plain attachments for display (and the latter weren't shown as attachments)
- Selective restoring of folders from a backup archive was ignoring the "Include subfolders" option
- MailTicker was not refreshed when a password-protected account got unlocked
- Changing the Draft flag of a message in the Outbox folder did not immediately change the coloring of the Outbox folder in the tree pane
- Tips of the day were not shown once a day but on each start of The Bat! during the day
- Context help in the new account window didn’t work
- File name handling in the .MSL files was unsafe as the .MSL files could contain references to image files with absolute paths pointing to unsafe locations
- If a user registered The Bat! during the additional 10-day trial period, upon installing a major upgrade, the user got a 10-day trial period again, not the 30-day main period
- IMAP errors when storing a message weren't reported in the account.log
- Inserting large HTML code could result it program crash
- German special characters (ü, ö, ä, ß) could be incorrectly encoded when using Extended MAPI/Exchange Server
- The Bat! looks for different names for Hunspell now: first hunsp64.dll, then hunspell64.dll, and hunspell.dll

# Improvements
- Better handling of URLs with non-ASCII characters
- From now on, Quick Search in the Address Book looks into secondary email addresses
# Fixes
- The Bat! no longer adds <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-???"> to HTML messages since it always uses HTML character entities in Unicode
- Windows Editor was storing incorrect character set name for text parts
- Issues with the attachment file names in "Watch and Send files" action in Scheduler have been eliminated
- When forwarding multiple messages as attachments, the Forwarded flag was set only to one message
- Printing selection didn't always work with non-ASCII text
- Forward messages using Quick Templates was not always working
- Order of Message List Tabs was not updated after editing it in the Preferences dialogue
- New Account dialogue was erroneously allowing to change protocol type of an account loaded from a specified folder
- The Bat! did not check for passwords larger longer than 250 characters and then could not use them
- The "TEditContentPart.Destroy --- ALREADY DESTROYED!!!" error when saving some HTML messages has been fixed
- Fixed an error at startup: Exception EOleSysError in module thebat.exe, Class not registered, ClassID: {56FDF344-FD6D-11D0-958A-006097C9A090}
- Inserting an URL into HTML text could generate error messages
- Message lists were not updated properly after Purge+Compress operations

# New features
- New dialogue for account creation
- "Auto" character set instead of "None" - The Bat! selects optimal character set for the entered text
- Support of the GB18030 Chinese character set
# Improvements
- By default the charset for new messages in new accounts is "Auto"
- Internal character processing changed from UCS-2 to UTF-16 to support Chinese characters and other rare characters
- Better detection of Chinese, Japanese and Korean user interface fonts
- Reply-To-All now fills TO and CC fields corresponding to the lists in the original messages
- Export of multiple messages is now done accordingly to the message list sort order
- Smarter imported field recognition in address book import from text files with coma- or tab-separated values
# Fixes
- Fixed a bug in charset handling (sometimes The Bat! gave an error like "The message characters cannot be encoded using currently selected "Windows-1252" character set. Please use "Windows-1255")
- Messages with invalid characters encoded into the 936 code page for gb2312 (Chinese Simplified) were shown as empty messages
- New messages were not added to the open MailTicker message lists
- Some Chinese and Japanese charsets weren't handled properly; some charset names were not displayed translated in The Bat! interface
- ISO-2022 characters were improperly encoded in the message headers with Quoted-Printable method. The "<" and ">" should have been also encoded
- Mouse click selection of a viewer/editor text item in View Profile settings was not functional
- Problem with continuing pasted URLs in Quick Reply pane
- Registration keys from some dealers could come from resellers in HTML format where line breaks (CR/LF characters) were not properly formatted as <BR> or prefixed by <CODE>
- Open/Save dialogue was not used when the program was started with the "Disable visual themes" option in the compatibility settings
- The "Message released..." error message after deletion an attachment from a message
- The "Failed to set calendar selected range" error when opening Calendar

* New features
- An option to save selected attachments into a specified folder without confirming each file has been implemented
- It is now possible to specify macros in backup archive comments
- The following character sets are now supported: EUC-JIS-2004, SHIFT_JIS-2004, ISO-2022-JP-2004, BIG5-2003
- Added support for ORFO 2014
- Extra code pages have been enabled: cp856, cp922, cp943, cp1046, cp1124, cp1129, cp1161, cp1162, cp1163, dec_kanji, dec_hanyu, cp437, cp737, cp775, cp852, cp853, cp855, cp857, cp858, cp860, cp861, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp869, cp1125, euc_jisx0213, shift_jisx0213, iso2022_jp3, big5_2003, tds565, atarist and riscos1
- RSS version 0.91, 0.92 and 1.0 are now supported as well
* Improvements
- Lists of the seen POP messages (from ACCOUNT.M_R and ACCOUNT.M_D) are now updated at the start of each POP session
- The Account information tab can be closed now. Should you need the account information in future, you will be able to reactivate this tab in the global preferences
- Indication of IMAP folder listing completion in the IMAP Folder Manager to avoid confusion
- Extended mouse buttons are now working not only in message lists, but in all message list windows
- Web-help is now used if invoked under the Russian program interface language
- Memory usage optimization for sending large messages
- Multi-tag description in RSS feeds is now supported
- The layout of message list context menu was changed to make functions that are frequently used more accessible
- An error regarding messages containing several text/plain inline parts and displaying them as having a single text part has been fixed
- New threading modes: by Sender Name, Sender Address, Recipient Name and Recipient Address
- The attachments pane menu was reworked: the option "Select All" was added; the option “Save to a folder” is visible when multiple attachments are selected
- /STARTUP_TIMING_LOG now displays which tasks in backup consume most time
* Fixes
- Postponed messages are no longer sent many times after re-editing
- The Reply-To field is not filled any more, if it is empty upon editing a stored message as new
- HTML Images from files with names with non-ASCII characters are now stored with correct names
- Since version 6.0 The Bat! didn't work with external PGP 5,6,7,8,9,10, that issue has been eliminated
- Tag statistics are now correctly loaded when on-the-fly message base encryption is used
- Split messages are automatically combined on IMAP
- The Bat! handles errors in ISO-2022 (Japanese) encoding properly now
- The /LOG_PGP_COMMAND_LINE command line parameter is now functional as it used to be in versions prior to 6.0
- The Bat! does not pass recipients to GnuPG with curly braces any more
- The "Compact folder after each message deletion" option is now once again functional in IMAP accounts
- The "Book" button in the "Add to address book" helper dialogue properly works now
- The Access Violation error message when moving messages from one IMAP account to another has been fixed
- The Access Violation error message when moving messages from IMAP to local folders has been fixed
- The issue with restoring folders with the "&" character in the name has been eliminated
- A problem with importing of UTF in CSV has been fixed
- In issue forcing the usage of Tahoma by default as the message header font rather than Segoe UI has been eliminated
- Problems with non-ASCII characters in file names in the "Watch and Send files" Scheduler action have been fixed
- The issue causing "Unexpected exception EEncodingError" error message in the RSS reader has been fixed
- The problem forcing The Bat! to crash after closing with user-defined Message Tab has been eliminated
- Messages left on the POP3 server are now deleted when removed from The Bat!’s Trash folder if the "Delete message from server when it is removed from Trash" option is enabled
- The issue with color drop-downs ignoring localized names in different dialogs has been fixed
- The Access Violation error, which appeared in the Inbox Analyzer while trying to check RSS account, has been fixed
- Memory leaks caused by using the operating system’s web-browser as the HTML viewer have been eliminated
- Data from LDIF files with international characters is now correctly imported
- Contacts with international characters are now correctly exported into LDIF files
- The issue preventing the imported groups to be immediately visible in the address book has been fixed
- "Reply to All" from the Quick Reply pane does not use all addresses in the "To:" field anymore
- New Tag colour settings are now saved correctly
- Problems that occurred when printing from SmartBat have been resolved
- The issue related to automatic completion of server settings when creating new accounts has been fixed
- Captions were truncated in some dialogs for certain languages
- High DPI awareness wasn't properly declared since version 6.5. As a result, fonts on high-DPI-monitors were blurred under Windows 8.1
- Reduced CPU consumption during backup and increased backup speed