New version (3.62.14) is now available.
What's new in The Bat! 3.62.14?
[ Legend: ]
[ ! Major Improvement ]
[ + Added feature ]
[ * Improved/changed feature ]
[ - Bug fixed (we hope) ]
[+] Message list tabs
[+] Reply to selected HTML part
[+] Support of copying to HTML clipboard from viewer
[+] Support of jid: and callme: URLs
[+] When using the option to cache certificate passphrase, the "list of certificates" window is no longer invoked for subsequent decryptions. This is very helpful for example when searching inside encrypted messages.
[+] New macros SETEDITOR
[+] New colour selections for selected states in colour groups
[+] POP URL is now stated in the notification about a large message arrived into POP mailbox
[*] Changed the algorithm of checking incoming messages for viruses to prevent conflicts with resident file monitors.
[*] Checksboxes in message account affect nested folders in the Message Finder folder tree
[*] Dealing with spaces in wrapped/encoded message headers should be better now
[*] Double clicks on the message header control now open links and add addresses to the Address Book, as in versions prior to 3.5
[*] Keeping Shift or Ctrl keys change behaviour of Reply to All toolbar button the same way as for Reply button (needs editing or deletion of TBUser.DEF, though)
[*] More consistent behaviour on opening mailto URLs from messages and from outer places
[*] Now GnuPG location firstly checked in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\GNU\GNUPG\gpgProgram
[*] The speed of decoding MIME Base64 has significally improved.
[*] trailing spaces are not skipped in quoted-printable encoding
[*] usage of utility unit is out of the $charset [*] When a user clicks "Browse" for a sound file in account properties, The Bat! offers Windows Media directory.
[*] When The Bat! is running under Windows 95, 98 or ME and no Microsoft Layer for Unicode is installed, The Bat! gives a warning to the user, offers to download the layer and exits.
[-] "Enter" button on New Account wizard did open "Browse for a folder" dialog.
[-] "Save All Attachments" command didn't check saved files for viruses.
[-] "Set Defaults" (for encryption) in the Message Editor didn't work
[-] #0 chars at the end of mime-decoded headers
[-] (#0000612) Date formatting macros (e.g. ODATESHORT) did ignore user overrides to the locale's default date format.
[-] (#0002485) The Bat! doesn't shows the checked envelope graph when a mail it's encrypted+signed with gpg
[-] (#0002551) Popup window with GnuPG message doesn't display national characters
[-] (#0002962) With GnuPG, national characters in name are not displayed correctly when signature is verified or when selecting recipient certificates
[-] (#0003186) PGP/MIME encrypted messages were not decrypted if their encrypted parts had file names assigned and stored in attachment directory
[-] (#0004131) Warnings were displayed behind SmartBat window, when it was set to be OnTop
[-] (#0004175) Only a part of address book photo was printed
[-] (#0004575) Message priority was omitted during redirect
[-] (#0004699) IMAP folders were often reported as damaged during checking integrity
[-] (#0004761) SmartBat's scheduler settings were not saved (now it's time to make them working, it's WIP)
[-] (#0004776) An error with decoding some base64-encoded fields of a VCF file
[-] (#0004800) AV after click OK in 'Network & Administration'
[-] (#0004820) "Mark the current message as read..." caption in the preferences dialog.
[-] (#0004848) Messages without character set stated in headers were not displayed right on IMAP
[-] (#0004929) option to prevent a non-administrator user to customise interface was not working
[-] (#0004930) option to prevent a non-administrator user to edit system hot keys was not working
[-] (#0004938) Ordinary user mode: It was possible to select non-logged accounts for send/receive
[-] (#0004939) Ordinary user mode: It was possible to select non-logged accounts in editor [-] (#0004982) Wrong warning was displayed when adding new header field with no RFC name filled
[-] (#0005011) Message status was not available to screen readers [-] (#0005042) Item added to menu cannot be hidden
[-] (#0005047) It was needed to open a password-protected account in order to check its mail [-] (#0005062) Folder colour groups were ignored while dragging and dropping on the tree
[-] (#0005068) The Bat! was losing one character per line decoding MIME Base64 multiline header (coded incorrectly)
[-] (#0005073) All user defined items have the same caption in the same container [-] (#0005074) Organisation field was not set often when messages were replied/forwarded
[-] (#0005077) problems with decoding and saving PGP messages [-] (#0005083) It was not possible to view message parts with non-text/* content types if they were using Unicode or other DBCS character sets
[-] (#0005085) Mixup with visual guide for colour group configuration.
[-] (#0005087) Hidden items are visible in menu and context menu in 3.61.02
[-] (#0005088) Bad rendering of national characters in the "Spell Checker"
[-] (#0005088) Bad rendering of national special characters in the "Spell Checker".
[-] (#0005091) Further fix of problems with added custom character sets.
[-] (#0005098) Faulty HTML shuts down The Bat!
[-] (#0005101) AV when clicking 'Follow' in context menu when a message browser was open by clicking a mid:/msgid: link
[-] (#0005108) message part size was not displayed for messages using Unicode and DBCS
[-] (#0005109) New addressbook only offers .abd extension under OTFE with some translations of The Bat!
[-] (#0005118) Unable to translate "Sample Text for this colour group" in ColourGroup Editor
[-] (#0005138) "options -> message format" submenu disappears
[-] (#0005144) UUEncoded attachments were corrupted if they were encoded using space characters instead of "`"
[-] (#0005151) Unable to export twice EML messages to the same dirrectory [-] (#0005180) Alt+letter menu-hotkeys dosn't work in Log Window
[-] (#0005190) Copying text from Delivery/reading report caused AV Error
[-] (#0005210) Date selector was not displayed in the SmartBat
[-] (#0005212) Reply without quotation was not working
[-] (#0005214) CRLFs were not translated in label in Maintenance Centre
[-] (#0005218) messages sent via Simple MAPI were not using default account settings on encryption/signing
[-] (#0005222) If encrypted text was containing only URLs, it was not displayed upon decryption
[-] (#0005232) redundant error message when saving attachments
[-] (#0005265) Colons were missing in many header names
[-] (#0005274) it was not possible to reformat paragraphs in MicroEd after switching from HTML editor mode
[-] (#0005276) Cannot restore backup if files are exist (got AV)
[-] (#0004759) No keyboard shortcut for maintenance in folder menu
[-] (#0005123) Can NOT select APOP authentication on receipt of email
[-] (Windows Editor) Text was converted into system locale from Unicode on loading from draft
[-] A URL could not be open from the message header pane if it was the beginning of a header.
[-] Alt clicking in message list was selecting whatever message appeared under mouse cursor when the mouse button was released
[-] Base64 and QP were mixed up at the Account Properties - Mail Management page
[-] Black-on-black colouring for a new colour group
[-] bug 0005004: Faulty copying from Excel 2003 and 2002 into HTML
[-] Bug with calculation of wrapped header fields' height
[-] extra space characters were added in the middle of encoded header fields
[-] Filters: 'Export message' action sometimes generated invalid filenames using macros
[-] Fixed "signature digest conflict in message" with GnuPG
[-] Headers with MIME-encoded words were incorrectly decoded
[-] IMAP: sometimes not updated counters after synchronization
[-] messy error messages when registering MAPI handler
[-] Move control positions from language resource didn't work.
[-] National characters weren't supported when showing results of GnuPG program execution
[-] New messages were not added into threads in Reference+Subject threading mode
[-] Old versions of The Bat! didn't work with new THEBAT.LNG files.
[-] PGP bugs caused by using Unicode
[-] Some menu items (e.g. "Import UNIX mailbox", etc) were enabled even when no folder was selected; the click on one of thes items with no selected folder gave no action.
[-] The Bat! didn't open foreign registry keys with Read-Only access mode, which could cause troubles when the users didn't have administrative privileges.
[-] The program sometimes didn't display error messages related to S/MIME cryptography, or some cryptography messages were not translatable.
[-] When POP3 was configured to use connection "Secure to Regular Port" and the certificate was invalid, The Bat! did add a meaningless message to the account log.
[-] When you had a message with a PGP signature and clicked Tools\Privacy\Verify Didital Signature, The Bat! might have ignored this menu command and do nothing rather then verifying the signature.
[ Legend: ]
[ ! Major Improvement ]
[ + Added feature ]
[ * Improved/changed feature ]
[ - Bug fixed (we hope) ]
[+] Message list tabs
[+] Reply to selected HTML part
[+] Support of copying to HTML clipboard from viewer
[+] Support of jid: and callme: URLs
[+] When using the option to cache certificate passphrase, the "list of certificates" window is no longer invoked for subsequent decryptions. This is very helpful for example when searching inside encrypted messages.
[+] New macros SETEDITOR
[+] New colour selections for selected states in colour groups
[+] POP URL is now stated in the notification about a large message arrived into POP mailbox
[*] Changed the algorithm of checking incoming messages for viruses to prevent conflicts with resident file monitors.
[*] Checksboxes in message account affect nested folders in the Message Finder folder tree
[*] Dealing with spaces in wrapped/encoded message headers should be better now
[*] Double clicks on the message header control now open links and add addresses to the Address Book, as in versions prior to 3.5
[*] Keeping Shift or Ctrl keys change behaviour of Reply to All toolbar button the same way as for Reply button (needs editing or deletion of TBUser.DEF, though)
[*] More consistent behaviour on opening mailto URLs from messages and from outer places
[*] Now GnuPG location firstly checked in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\GNU\GNUPG\gpgProgram
[*] The speed of decoding MIME Base64 has significally improved.
[*] trailing spaces are not skipped in quoted-printable encoding
[*] usage of utility unit is out of the $charset [*] When a user clicks "Browse" for a sound file in account properties, The Bat! offers Windows Media directory.
[*] When The Bat! is running under Windows 95, 98 or ME and no Microsoft Layer for Unicode is installed, The Bat! gives a warning to the user, offers to download the layer and exits.
[-] "Enter" button on New Account wizard did open "Browse for a folder" dialog.
[-] "Save All Attachments" command didn't check saved files for viruses.
[-] "Set Defaults" (for encryption) in the Message Editor didn't work
[-] #0 chars at the end of mime-decoded headers
[-] (#0000612) Date formatting macros (e.g. ODATESHORT) did ignore user overrides to the locale's default date format.
[-] (#0002485) The Bat! doesn't shows the checked envelope graph when a mail it's encrypted+signed with gpg
[-] (#0002551) Popup window with GnuPG message doesn't display national characters
[-] (#0002962) With GnuPG, national characters in name are not displayed correctly when signature is verified or when selecting recipient certificates
[-] (#0003186) PGP/MIME encrypted messages were not decrypted if their encrypted parts had file names assigned and stored in attachment directory
[-] (#0004131) Warnings were displayed behind SmartBat window, when it was set to be OnTop
[-] (#0004175) Only a part of address book photo was printed
[-] (#0004575) Message priority was omitted during redirect
[-] (#0004699) IMAP folders were often reported as damaged during checking integrity
[-] (#0004761) SmartBat's scheduler settings were not saved (now it's time to make them working, it's WIP)
[-] (#0004776) An error with decoding some base64-encoded fields of a VCF file
[-] (#0004800) AV after click OK in 'Network & Administration'
[-] (#0004820) "Mark the current message as read..." caption in the preferences dialog.
[-] (#0004848) Messages without character set stated in headers were not displayed right on IMAP
[-] (#0004929) option to prevent a non-administrator user to customise interface was not working
[-] (#0004930) option to prevent a non-administrator user to edit system hot keys was not working
[-] (#0004938) Ordinary user mode: It was possible to select non-logged accounts for send/receive
[-] (#0004939) Ordinary user mode: It was possible to select non-logged accounts in editor [-] (#0004982) Wrong warning was displayed when adding new header field with no RFC name filled
[-] (#0005011) Message status was not available to screen readers [-] (#0005042) Item added to menu cannot be hidden
[-] (#0005047) It was needed to open a password-protected account in order to check its mail [-] (#0005062) Folder colour groups were ignored while dragging and dropping on the tree
[-] (#0005068) The Bat! was losing one character per line decoding MIME Base64 multiline header (coded incorrectly)
[-] (#0005073) All user defined items have the same caption in the same container [-] (#0005074) Organisation field was not set often when messages were replied/forwarded
[-] (#0005077) problems with decoding and saving PGP messages [-] (#0005083) It was not possible to view message parts with non-text/* content types if they were using Unicode or other DBCS character sets
[-] (#0005085) Mixup with visual guide for colour group configuration.
[-] (#0005087) Hidden items are visible in menu and context menu in 3.61.02
[-] (#0005088) Bad rendering of national characters in the "Spell Checker"
[-] (#0005088) Bad rendering of national special characters in the "Spell Checker".
[-] (#0005091) Further fix of problems with added custom character sets.
[-] (#0005098) Faulty HTML shuts down The Bat!
[-] (#0005101) AV when clicking 'Follow' in context menu when a message browser was open by clicking a mid:/msgid: link
[-] (#0005108) message part size was not displayed for messages using Unicode and DBCS
[-] (#0005109) New addressbook only offers .abd extension under OTFE with some translations of The Bat!
[-] (#0005118) Unable to translate "Sample Text for this colour group" in ColourGroup Editor
[-] (#0005138) "options -> message format" submenu disappears
[-] (#0005144) UUEncoded attachments were corrupted if they were encoded using space characters instead of "`"
[-] (#0005151) Unable to export twice EML messages to the same dirrectory [-] (#0005180) Alt+letter menu-hotkeys dosn't work in Log Window
[-] (#0005190) Copying text from Delivery/reading report caused AV Error
[-] (#0005210) Date selector was not displayed in the SmartBat
[-] (#0005212) Reply without quotation was not working
[-] (#0005214) CRLFs were not translated in label in Maintenance Centre
[-] (#0005218) messages sent via Simple MAPI were not using default account settings on encryption/signing
[-] (#0005222) If encrypted text was containing only URLs, it was not displayed upon decryption
[-] (#0005232) redundant error message when saving attachments
[-] (#0005265) Colons were missing in many header names
[-] (#0005274) it was not possible to reformat paragraphs in MicroEd after switching from HTML editor mode
[-] (#0005276) Cannot restore backup if files are exist (got AV)
[-] (#0004759) No keyboard shortcut for maintenance in folder menu
[-] (#0005123) Can NOT select APOP authentication on receipt of email
[-] (Windows Editor) Text was converted into system locale from Unicode on loading from draft
[-] A URL could not be open from the message header pane if it was the beginning of a header.
[-] Alt clicking in message list was selecting whatever message appeared under mouse cursor when the mouse button was released
[-] Base64 and QP were mixed up at the Account Properties - Mail Management page
[-] Black-on-black colouring for a new colour group
[-] bug 0005004: Faulty copying from Excel 2003 and 2002 into HTML
[-] Bug with calculation of wrapped header fields' height
[-] extra space characters were added in the middle of encoded header fields
[-] Filters: 'Export message' action sometimes generated invalid filenames using macros
[-] Fixed "signature digest conflict in message" with GnuPG
[-] Headers with MIME-encoded words were incorrectly decoded
[-] IMAP: sometimes not updated counters after synchronization
[-] messy error messages when registering MAPI handler
[-] Move control positions from language resource didn't work.
[-] National characters weren't supported when showing results of GnuPG program execution
[-] New messages were not added into threads in Reference+Subject threading mode
[-] Old versions of The Bat! didn't work with new THEBAT.LNG files.
[-] PGP bugs caused by using Unicode
[-] Some menu items (e.g. "Import UNIX mailbox", etc) were enabled even when no folder was selected; the click on one of thes items with no selected folder gave no action.
[-] The Bat! didn't open foreign registry keys with Read-Only access mode, which could cause troubles when the users didn't have administrative privileges.
[-] The program sometimes didn't display error messages related to S/MIME cryptography, or some cryptography messages were not translatable.
[-] When POP3 was configured to use connection "Secure to Regular Port" and the certificate was invalid, The Bat! did add a meaningless message to the account log.
[-] When you had a message with a PGP signature and clicked Tools\Privacy\Verify Didital Signature, The Bat! might have ignored this menu command and do nothing rather then verifying the signature.