The Bat Home Edition 4.2.10

The Bat Home Edition 4.2.10 is a powerful tool that allows users to work with unlimited number of the mailboxes, has powerful sorting filters, fully customizable message templates, Mail Dispatcher and many more other features.

For the Home Edition the multilingual interface can be downloaded separately, they are included in the International Pack.

Home Edition spell checker dictionaries can be downloaded separately, they are included in the International Pack.

Major Features:

1. Protection of privacy
   • The Bat!’s characteristic feature is the most widespread support of authentication protocols and of encryption while working with mail servers. The Bat! is one of the most protected mail clients, it is adopted by many companies for which privacy protection is a matter of life and death. The most recent versions of The Bat! have smart security buttons for each message that help in making users’ information really private.
2. Anti-virus defense
   • The other side of safety is protection against malicious codes. Unlike other email applications, The Bat! does not start scripts automatically. The Bat! benefits of its own HTML viewing mechanism – Robin HTML Viewer, as well as of its own image viewing module. These mechanisms protect you from viruses aimed at operating system mechanisms vulnerability. Windows Vista users should know that The Bat! benefits of Windows Vista’s Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution Prevention (DEP) for protecting the computer from viruses and malicious codes spread via email. The Bat! 4.0 and further versions are upgraded with a URL manager for background HTML image retrieval. This manager successfully fights malicious codes inserted into HTML images.
3. Smart Sorting Office
   • The Sorting Office is a powerful filtering system that not only sorts your incoming, outgoing, read, and replied messages to folders, but also can auto-respond; reply with a custom template; forward, redirect, print, or export messages; send reading confirmations; run an external program and more. Once you spend a few minutes for setting sorting rules, you forget about drag-and-dropping messages from folder to folder. The Bat! sorting office is so sophisticated that you can even run the mailing list server with the full subscribe/unsubscribe functionality. More...
4. Handy Message Templates
   • In addition to the signatures, The Bat! allows to create the message templates that are using special macros. Any mailbox, folder or entry in the Address Book can have a set of templates for the new message, reply or forward. These templates will greatly expedite the process of message composition, especially when the message has some standard or common text. More...
5. Quick Templates
   • In the message editor, Quick Templates will save you hours of typing. Insert text blocks - even from files on disk - add custom message information, attach files and vCards, and more - all with a couple of keystrokes and without using menu commands. More...
6. Message Parking
   • Message parking is designed to prevent accidental deletion of a valuable message. When a message is parked, you will not be able to move it to another folder, nor will it be deleted or automatically purged.
7. Built-In Backup and Restore
   • You can make backups of all the configuration settings, address books and folders, and restore such information from the backup file in case of accidental data loss. You can also add a comment to the backup file, select which accounts to backup and even password protect the archive file. In addition The Bat! you to create a separate backup for each mailbox.
8. Updating and Installing
   • The Bat! is compatible with the new Windows Vista Restart Manager (RM) that allows you update Windows components required by The Bat! without restarting The Bat! or Windows. Updating had never been that easy. System administrators will also appreciate the new silent (unattended) setup opportunity which allows installing The Bat! without user’s interaction.
9. Strong Encryption
   • The internal PGP implementation, based on the award-winning OpenSSL lets you encrypt messages and sign them with digital signatures. Handy manager for digital keys included. Free plug-ins for PGP v5.5, v6.0.2, 6.5, v7.x & v8.x GnuPG is also supported. The Bat! also supports S/MIME via Internal Implementation or Microsoft CryptoAPI. The Bat! is the first e-mail client to support S/MIME compressed data. The Bat! support Secure Socket Layer (SSL) v3.1 / Transport Layer Security (TLS) v1.0 with AES algorithm.
10. Mail Synchronization
    • You can synchronize two separate copies of The Bat! up-to-date with each other. You choose to synchronize the messages themselves, mailbox and account settings, the Address Books and attached files.
11. Microsoft Exchange Connectivity
    • The Bat! connects to Microsoft Exchange Servers using native MAPI protocol to fetch or send the messages. You just have to install Microsoft Office Outlook or Microsoft Exchange Client to supply the Exchange connectivity components which The Bat! will be using.
12. Extended Support of National Codepages
    • The Bat! allows you set an individual codepage per mailbox, per folder or per entry in the Address Book. You don’t have to put the codepage manually for every message you receive or send. Moreover, The Bat! 4.0 and further versions’ MicroEd text editor supports Unicode; any system font or set of characters is available.
13. Convenient Message Dispatcher
    • The message dispatcher is The Bat!’s special feature that lets you look at the messages stored on your POP3 or IMAP mail server without downloading them. It’s very useful for managing your mail remotely, for example leaving "that copy of the huge document" on the server until you get home, but still retrieving and reading the urgent memos while still on the mobile connection.
14. Fast Address Book
    • The Address Book provides you an easy way to maintain the list of contacts you have. It is possible to create groups dedicated to a particular classification or for use as a mailing list. Every entry in the Address Book can have a personal and business address, its own Template, default Codepage and even photos and S/MIME-certificate attached to it. In The Bat! 4.0 and further versions there is a new Address History option which allows viewing and promptly accessing any message from/to any correspondent.
15. Multilanguage Interface
    • The Bat! allows to change the interface language on the fly without a need to restart the program. There are 12 languages uploaded by default.
16. Image Viewing
    • The Bat! has its own image viewer, which means that access to attached images is much faster then through an external application. This viewer allows navigating between images, it also supports rotate, advanced resize and zoom algorithms and full screen mode.
17. Submission Forms
    • The Bat! has a perfect tool for creating queries that are automatically processed by servers. It’s a great solution for a business client-server environment.
18. Powerful Import Wizard
    • The Bat! allows to import messages from the following mail clients: 1. Microsoft Outlook Express v4.xx, 5.xx, 6.0 2. Microsoft Office Outlook 97, 2000, XP, 2003 3. Netscape Communicator v4.xx 4. Netscape Mail v2.xx, 3.xx 5. Eudora Lite/Pro 6. Pegasus Mail v2.xx, 3.xx
19. Other features:

Enhancements:

• The Bat! is now "Compatible with Windows® 7"
• Thai html is displayed by The Bat! with orphan characters in the end of each line; also, the multiline space is too big.
• Some fixes with Thai
• Renewed the SIMPLE MAPI handler
• When working with S/MIME internal implementation, the "Select Certificate" dialogue box is now sizeable.
• It is now possible to search S/MIME certificates by e-mail when using the Internal Implementation
• A warning is given when the user clicks "Destroy all private keys" button in the hardware token editor
• When using OTFE with Aladdin eToken and the user did enter an incorrect PIN during the startup, The Bat! did exit; now it offers to enter the PIN again
• An SMTP Authentication option to use MD5 authentication was sometimes incorrectly handled
• Once a submission form was signed, the user will be unable to uncheck the appropriate checkboxes to make the form unsigned in future
• Fixed Windows taskbar title for the Splash window.
• Fixed a redundant error message when the user cancels decryption of an S/MIME message
• New, gray glyph set for HTML editor icons
• Color list combo boxes do not adjust to the large font
•  Status bar contents do not adjust according to the selected large font
• Tabs do not adjust according to the Large Fonts
• Folder tree images are not vertically aligned
• New glyphs for find menu icon, icons for find next/prev fixed in message preview context menu.

Requirements:

• Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6a (SP6a) and Internet Explorer 5.0
• Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 (SP4)
• Windows XP
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Vista