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This version introduces a set of new macros that were previously available only through the separate Extended Macro Plugin.

This release features an updated Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF), which ensures better rendering of HTML content. Users working with dark themes will also notice refinements to the classic HTML message preview pane.

We are glad to announce the release of the latest version of The Bat! packed with improvements to enhance your email experience.

We announce the release of The Bat! v11.4, featuring a highly anticipated update: full support for calendar synchronization via the CalDAV protocol.

This enhancement significantly improves security and ease of access for POP3 users, as OAUTH provides a more secure way to manage account authentication without needing to store passwords locally.

We're excited to introduce PasteVault to macOS users who work extensively with text — writers, journalists, programmers, creatives and others.

We have released the new version of The Bat!, which includes several fixes and improvements. This update focuses on enhancing user experience and resolving issues reported by the community.

All the new features and improvements of the 11th version of The Bat! are now available in The Bat! Voyager v11.

Today we have released the new version of our email client The Bat! v11.2.1. This update addresses several significant bugs to enhance user experience and improve functionality.

We are glad to announce the release of The Bat! v11.2. This update brings a significant improvement in attachment management, a highly anticipated feature among The Bat! users.

In version 11 of The Bat! email program, new indexing algorithms have been introduced for the new Conversation Thread View. We have received a lot of feedback from users of The Bat! v11, and based on this data, were able to significantly improve the indexing algorithms.

We are pleased to announce the release of The Bat! version 11, featuring the Conversation Thread View. This marks the debut of a streamlined approach to viewing and organizing related emails.

In response to user feedback, we have released the new version The Bat! v10.5.3, packed with improvements to enhance user experience and address critical issues.

As a team, we are thrilled to announce a Halloween treat that will send shivers down your inbox.

Today we have released a new version of our email client The Bat!, which features an internal HTML Viewer.

Great news for all users of our email program – we are pleased to announce the release of the new version The Bat! v10.5, which includes a range of improvements and important fixes.

Today we have released a regular update of our email client – the new version features calendar manager and synchronisation with Google Calendar.

The users of The Bat! Christmas Edition have encountered an unexpected issue today – the program has not started and showed an access violation error. We have fixed this issue in the new version The Bat! v10.3.3.3.

Holidays are coming and it means that the new Christmas Edition of The Bat! email client is released!

The auto-update feature first appeared in The Bat! v10 and now two types of versions are available for download – versions with and without the auto-update function. Let’s see the difference between these two types of versions.

We have good news for you: the new version of the email client The Bat! features the long-awaiting attachment preview of MS Office documents!

We continue to improve the functionality and increase the stability of the 10th version of The Bat! email client. Today we have released the long-awaited new version The Bat! v10.2!

We are continuously working on improving our email client and today we have released the new version with a number of fixes.

We are excited to inform you that the long-awaited portable version The Bat! Voyager v10 has been released!

The users of The Bat! will continue connecting to their Gmail accounts without any difficulties – the email client supports the authorization protocol OAuth 2.0, which is required by Google.

Today is an important day for Ritlabs: we have released the new version of our email client – The Bat! v10!

Privacy of correspondence and data security are among the main goals that the email client The Bat! successfully achieves. In this article we will remind you of how to use OpenPGP to sign and encrypt emails.

We have waited for the new version for quite a long time and today we are happy to announce the start of The Bat! v10 beta-testing!

The Bat! offers a great number of simple and useful features, and we bet you have never imagined some of them exist!

Some users (for instance, the users of GMX) have encountered an issue related to email download in their IMAP accounts after an update on the servers. We have fixed this error.

Suggestion list, a simple but extremely useful feature, is a real time saver for The Bat! users.

The Christmas Edition of The Bat! email client is released!

Message Dispatcher allows for looking at messages stored on the POP3 mail server without downloading them - it is useful for managing mail remotely. Using message dispatcher, you can delete unsolicited emails from the server.

Knock! Knock! Who‘s there? The Bat! email client in its Halloween Edition! The new version 9.4.5 includes several new features as well as a number of issue fixes.  

Today’s article will remind you of a simple and useful feature, which helps saving time when managing emails. Quick Reply is a tool in The Bat! which allows creating and sending replies to correspondents without using the editor.

Some of The Bat! users encountered a problem on October 1, 2021: the certificates for secure connection issued by Let’s Encrypt expired. Please follow the exact steps to solve the issue quickly.

Image Download Manager is a tool in The Bat! that takes control over the external media download.

Summary view has been available in The Bat! for years now and it has become the default view in the latest versions. Today we would like to remind of this feature and share some ideas of its customization.

We have released the long-awaited new version of the portable email client The Bat! Voyager v9.4.4. This version of The Bat! Voyager includes all the new features and improvements of the email client The Bat!

We are still working on improving the new HTML editor and today we have released the new version The Bat! v9.4.3 with a number of important improvements.

No doubt Quick Templates is one of the most effective The Bat! tools in terms of saving time when managing correspondence. Today’s article is dedicated to this unique feature.

We have lately received a number of queries on The Bat! v10 new features and its release date, so today we are ready to share this important information!

The new version of The Bat! is released! The wait was worth it: The Bat! v9.4 comes out with a number of new features and fixes to enhance stability and improve overall user experience.

MailTicker is a visual indicator that displays information about unread messages. It displays the sender and the subject of the message by default.

Quite often we just need to quickly find messages in the current message list. The Bat! developers have created a simple and handy tool for such cases, and namely the Quick Search.

What are email aliases? Essentially, aliases are alternative addresses that direct to the main email address inbox. Creating an alias also creates a matching sending identity, which lets you send messages from your main account using the email address matching that alias.

We all do appreciate The Bat! for its ability to manage an unlimited number of accounts and folders.  Most users deal with hundreds of folders every day so folder tabs would certainly help navigate quicker between them.

We are continuously working on stability and functionality improvements for our email client The Bat! and are glad to announce the release of the new version The Bat! v9.3.4.

No doubt The Bat! users deal with a huge number of emails every day, and the sorting by message list tabs certainly helps speed up the search for messages in the long list.

Do you know you can edit themes in The Bat!? There is no special theme customizer, but there are handy color groups which let you fine-tune any theme.

The new version of the email program comes up with a number of stability and usability refinements.

In the new version of The Bat we have added the support of OAuth 2.0 authentication for Office365.com and Live.com, and implemented a new option for a better management of the Quick Search message list tabs.

In case you need to move your email hosting to another provider or migrate email to another account, The Bat! offers you a quick and simple solution.

The new version of our email client comes up with further improvements in program interface.

Starting from The Bat! v9.3, users enjoy visual enhancement that consists not only of new interface themes, but of updated icons in the main window as well.

The Bat! joins the Dark Side: the new version with its Choco Dark theme offers the most impressive redesign in the history of our email client!

In new version of The Bat! we have made further steps aimed at enhancing the program’s performance and overall stability.

The new version of the portable email client is now available for download.

The new version of the email program uses OAuth 2.0 authentication - a modern way and secure way to access email accounts.

All the new features and improvements of The Bat! are also available in the latest version of Voyager.

Once unread messages are detected the total number is displayed on the badge either on the taskbar or in the system tray, or both.

Stefan Tanurkov talks about the changes and the development priorities at Ritlabs, SRL in the foreseeable future.

The new version comes up with significant improvements in the responsiveness of the user interface and features a brand-new HTML viewer while still protecting the users from malware.

There are important updates to the support for secure connections type and additional options for customizing the user interface.

The new version of the email program supports TLS AEAD AES-GCM cipher suites for secure connections with the mail servers.

In respect of the good tradition at Ritlabs, SRL we have released The Bat! Christmas Edition. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Further stability and performance improvements with a look into the future.

We have implemented several new features and made further improvements to the program in different areas including the MailTicker™, the message editor and the address book.

Ritlabs, SRL starts selling licenses for The Bat! version 9 on June 3, 2019.

In this new version of The Bat! we have made further steps aimed at enhancing the program’s security and overall stability.

The Bat! email program is invulnerable to attacks via VCF (vCard) files, commonly known as electronic business cards.

The Bat! email program is invulnerable to attacks aimed at gathering information about the targeted systems.

It is a good tradition that Ritlabs every year releases a Christmas Edition of The Bat! email program. There was no exception this time around.

Our email program is invulnerable to such attacks because it doesn’t automatically open attached files and does warn the users while opening certain file types.

There many updates in different areas of the program including the interface, address book and message editor.

The new version of the email program supports TLS 1.2 for secure connections with the mail servers.

The new version of the program is now protected against third-party plugins. It also features new message editor icons which help save time while composing emails

The new version of the program has been optimized to save more details to the log files and to better run on multi-core and multi-processor servers.

Ritlabs, SRL comes up with a statement that its email program is protected against this type of attack.

The new versions of The Bat! for Desktop and Voyager for removable drives come up with new features and further improvements.

Ritlabs, SRL reports that The Bat! users are on the safe side as the email clients is immune to this type of attacks.

We are constantly working on improving the program’s performance and stability.

Ritlabs, SRL releases the new generation of the portable email client.

The new version of the email program runs faster on all systems.

The new version of The Bat! is no longer affected by Mailsploit, a set of vulnerabilities that allowed sender spoofing.

Every year Ritlabs, SRL releases a Christmas Edition of The Bat! email program and this time around there was no exception. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Ritlabs is proud to present The Bat! v8.0 with significant improvements in program’s operation speed and overall stability.

Serious security issues have been discovered in Microsoft Outlook and as of today, there is no patch to prevent attackers from infecting victims’ computers via email.

Top security web-sites report vulnerabilities in Microsoft Outlook, while The Bat! is on the safe side.

Users who purchase a license for The Bat! starting from August 22, 2017 onwards will receive a registration key, which will be valid not only for The Bat! version 7, but also for The Bat! version 8.

This version of the mail server features improved operation on multi-core and multi-processor servers with non-uniform memory access (NUMA).

For the second consecutive year Ritlabs, SRL receives an award at the “Trademark of the year” contest in the "Export" category. This time, on June 16, 2017, the company earned the “Golden Mercury 2016” award for its trademark The Bat! This competition is held annually by the Chamber of Commerce and the State Agency for the Intellectual Property of the Republic of Moldova.

Security researchers have discovered a way of making Microsoft Outlook run Visual Basic code and launch a command shell, according to SC Magazine UK.

The new version of our email program comes up with more improvements to the IMAP4 implementation, HTML viewer and editor, PGP and GnuPG support, and many more.

Today, Ritlabs, SRL releases a new version of the email program which offers more improvements for the HTML editor and the viewer and looks better under high-definition 4K monitors.

It has become a good tradition at Ritlabs, SRL to release a Christmas Edition of The Bat! email program every year. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We are happy to present a new version of the program featuring improvements in the user-interface for high DPI, 64-bit plugins and other areas.

The new version starts faster, performs better and includes many improvements in various areas of the program.

The new version of the email program makes another step forward in terms of security and user experience.

The developers have taken into account many user requests and made The Bat! email program even faster and more reliable.

For the second consecutive year Ritlabs, SRL receives an award in the "Export" category at the annually held “Trademark of the year” contest.

The Bat! met all technical requirements and eligibility qualifications to participate in the Windows 10 Desktop App Certification Program. Our email client is now certified and officially compatible with the latest Windows technology.

We have demonstrated a “best-in-class” ability and dedication to meet Microsoft customers’ evolving needs in today’s dynamic business environment and attained the Gold Application Development Competency.

Today, Ritlabs, SRL has released an updated version of the secure client email software, The Bat! v7.1.18. The new version offers efficient contact management in Exchange accounts.

Today, Ritlabs, SRL releases The Bat! v7.1.8 Christmas Edition with several new features, including OAuth authentication with Gmail and Mail.Ru, custom display names in the message list, and more.

Security Intelligence, the source of the latest security analysis and insight from top IT security experts, published an article warning users of a security vulnerability existing in email programs.

Today, Ritlabs, SRL releases version 7.0 of The Bat! email client. This version introduces the new mail protocol to connect with Exchange Servers directly and a new feature which keeps the address book contacts constantly updated.

Today, Ritlabs, SRL releases The Bat! v6.8.8 which includes fixes to Quick Search in the Quick Template editor and Scheduler.

Ritlabs, SRL releases The Bat! v6.8.4 today. The new version offers specific fixes and improvement to the Copying/Moving procedures.

Today Ritlabs, SRL releases The Bat! v6.8.2. In the latest version of the email program, you can assign color groups to accounts and set up incoming filters for RSS Feeds.

Ritlabs, SRL starts selling licenses for The Bat! version 7 On May 9, 2015.

We previously notified you that Google will close your thebat.net account on April 19, 2015, but Google has informed us that your thebat.net account will in fact be closed on May 19, 2015.

Today, Ritlabs, SRL releases The Bat! v6.8. This version contains issue fixes and general stability improvements.

Ritlabs, SRL has been notified by Google that email hosting services for thebat.net is being phased out. The decision is part of a change in Google’s business model that has affected thebat.net and many other internet service providing companies as well.

Today Ritlabs, SRL releases The Bat! v6.7.36. The latest version includes a new set of emoticons and fixes some issues.

The 64-bit version of The Bat! has been released to the public, part of The Bat! v6.7.20. The 64-bit version of The Bat! offers many added benefits for speed, stability and security. In terms of overall performance, it is 5% faster than the 32-bit version in a 64-bit operating system.

Ritlabs is proud to announce that its trademark The Bat! has been awarded a silver medal at the “Trademark of the year – 2014” contest in the "Export" category. The competition is held annually by the Chamber of Commerce and the State Agency for the Intellectual Property of the Republic of Moldova.

Ritlabs, SRL releases The Bat! v6.7.5 Christmas Edition which includes several feature improvements and a number of important fixes. You can always access the "What’s new" page of the website to see the entire list of changes and improvements. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Ritlabs, SRL has released a new version of their secure email client, The Bat!, introducing new features, a more user-friendly interface, and AutoCharset for Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters at an optimal level. The upgrades make The Bat! more convenient and secure, and easier to use and navigate, particularly for international use.

The new version of the secure email client The Bat! 6.6 supports Windows Touch technology on desktops and laptops with touch screen as well as hybrid devices and Windows 8 tablets. This will enable The Bat! users to be more productive with email correspondence, using a broader range of devices.

German computer magazine c’t (Magazin fur Computertechnik) has published an article on the email programs. The Bat! got a good evaluation. The magazine named diversity of the configuration options, easy email handling, task scheduling features, RSS reader, confidentiality of correspondence and safety among the strongest sides of the program.

It exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in the handling of the 'pFragments' shape property within the Microsoft Word RTF parser. The Bat! users should not be worried, as the program is invulnerable to the recently reported pFragments Microsoft Office exploit. The Bat! uses its own component to handle RTF messages.

The Bat! is not vulnerable to the new zero-day flaw of the Internet Explorer browser which attackers use to gain control of a targeted system.

Ritlabs, SRL presents a regular update of The Bat! email program with further improvements and fixes.

The Bat! is not vulnerable to the Heartbleed Bug in TLS implementations, recently discovered in the OpenSSL library and products based on OpenSSL.

The major update of this version is the internal implementation of the RSS feed subscriptions. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a technology that allows fetching news published on web-sites, blogs or forums. RSS feeds keep you in touch with the latest events and increase the efficiency of your work.

A new version of The Bat! Voyager, the portable email client, has been released. The latest version of Voyager includes all the new features and improvements of the The Bat!

We present an updated version of our email client The Bat! v6.2 which introduces the summary view.

In respect of the good tradition at Ritlabs, SRL we have released The Bat! Christmas Edition today. This version is aimed at increasing the program’s stability and comes with a Christmas splash-screen.

Ritlabs, SRL has been awarded the title "Conscientious Taxpayer" according to the results of the selection organized by the Сhief State Tax Service of the Republic of Moldova. The ceremony of awarding the Cup and the "Certificate of Trust" was held on December 24, 2013.

The new The Bat! v6.1 comes with major improvements regarding the support of the cryptographic protocols. Previous versions of the program supported TLS 1.0 only, however we also implemented SSL 3.0 - an older version of the protocol to comply with the outdated mail servers. We also added the support of TLS 1.1 - a newer version of the protocol to enhance the security of messages in transit.

Ritlabs, SRL presents the new version of the email client – The Bat! 6.0. The Bat! 6.0 is the first version in v6.xx series. The developers have introduced important new features.

Ritlabs, SRL presents the new version The Bat! 5.8.8 with further improvements and fixes.

IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) are the domain names that contain national alphabet characters. The names composed from the characters of the non-latin alphabets, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, etc., as well as the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacritics, such as French, German etc. are related to such domain names.

In this version the improvements related to image printing via Ctrl+P, case inverting, reply counter "AW:", the key AltGr for Hungarian and German keyboard layouts and search function in cookies have benn made. Besides this, the new function Lock toolbar has been introduced.

The new version contains two minor issue fixes.

Ritlabs, SRL releases The Bat! v5.3.10 with further improvements among which are the message tags handling, Hunspell engine and speller dictionaries, additional built-in server settings, updated root CA certificates and a handful of issue fixes.

Ritlabs, SRL brings to your attention a new The Bat! v5.3.8, a regular update. In this version we returned to the original splash screen after the winter holidays, improved the existing features and fixed a number of issues.

We present a new version of The Bat! Voyager, the portable email client. All the new features and improvements of the The Bat! are also available in the latest version of Voyager.

On the Christmas eve our company releases a new The Bat! version with further improvements. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Ritlabs, SRL releases The Bat! v5.3.4, a regular update. In the new version we have implemented the Quick reply feature, so that now there is no need in opening a separate editor window to compose and then send a reply.

Ritlabs, SRL releases The Bat! v5.2.2, a regular update. The highlights of the new version are the support of the iecm:// protocol, recipient's photo display in the "Outbox" and "Sent" folders. Further on we have made minor changes in the user interface and fixed some issues.

Ritlabs, SRL brings you The Bat! 5.2, a regular update of the program. In this version we’ve added some new features, fixed some bugs that appeared in v5.1 and improved several existing program mechanisms.

We present a new version of The Bat! Voyager portable email client.

New version of The Bat! email program is launched by Ritlabs, SRL. The most important new features of The Bat! 5.1 are Inbox Analyzer, image download manager, message tags, hints, external HTML viewing module and Multi-SMTP option. These and other improvements of The Bat! 5.1 are described below.

On FindMySoft there is a quick look video of The Bat! that could be helpful to our new users. Besides, there is also a review of the program on that site. We're thankful to Jerome Johnston, the author of both materials, for being interested in The Bat!

With the first days of March, RITLabs brings you The Bat! 5.0.36, a regular update of the program. In this version several issues were redesigned, some bugs were fixed.

Compared with the previous version there are several changes in the new The Bat! v5.0.34 including minor changes in the interface.

After releasing The Bat! v5.0.32 now presents RITLabs The Bat! Voyager v5.0.32.1 - the portable version of the new The Bat!

Even right after the Christmas holidays, RITLabs is working as usual, delivering The Bat! 5.0.32, a regular update of the program. In this version several bugs were fixed.

We present a new version of The Bat! Voyager portable email client. Previous version was issued almost half a year ago, that's why the improvements list is not a short one.

It has become a good tradition for us to create a special version of our email program in the end of every year. Year 2011 is not an exception: The Bat! 5.0.30 Winter Edition is ready – and its time has come.

RITLabs brings to your attention an improved and renewed section of the website dedicated to The Bat! features.

Our developers have fixed several issues that were brought to our attention in v5.0.20.

Apple has recently discovered a bug in its iOS platform that failed to verify the origin of a digital certificate, "Basic Constraints." This flaw can potentially lead to interception of TLS/SSL connections.

In this new version the developers introduced some new features and fixed several issues. Remote Access connections and IMAP command priority have been resolved.

We are happy to release a new version of The Bat! Voyager portable email client. There are several improvements and fixes compared to the previous edition.

The developers have fixed some issues that arose in v5.0.16.

We have updated a couple of things from v5.0.14.

In the process of development of this version we continued resolving of the issues that came to our attention in The Bat! v5.0.8. Most changes brought into The Bat! update are meant to deal with these problems. However, we have also added a series of new features – it is now possible to set CC and BCC fields when redirecting messages, "Message | Edit as New" action added etc.

In the new version we resolved some of issues that came up in The Bat! v5.0.8. Various features of the program were fixed.

While developing the new version of The Bat!, we have significantly modified the source code. We would recommend that you create a backup before installing or upgrading the program!

RITLabs announces the launch of a new version of The Bat! email client.
In The Bat! v5 we have completely reworked the intercommunication engine. This is an important step as it allowed us to significantly improve access to email via the IMAP-protocol, to implement new search capabilities, and to display the relevant processes. These changes made the program more stable and secure.

Our upgrade policy remains the same – all users of 4.1 and further versions can upgrade to version 5.0 free of charge without updating their license keys. Version 4.x.x license key will be valid for version 5.0.x. Previous versions of the program can be upgraded to The Bat! v5 with a 30% discount on our website –www.ritlabs.com– or via our official dealers.

The Bat! Professional Edition has been downloaded and scanned by FileCluster on Feb 1, 2011 with a 4-in-1 antivirus security solution, composed by: BitDefender Antivirus Pro, NOD32, Avira Antivirus and Kaspersky Antivirus.

We are happy to inform our users that starting December, 23, 2010 you can pre-purchase license keys for version 5.x.x. Users that purchase licenses after December, 23, will receive keys that work with versions 4.x.x, 5.x.x and 6.0.

All of us at RITLabs want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We thought that words alone would not be enough. So, we have a special gift for our users The Bat! 4.2.42. This version will be the last 4.x.xx version; we plan to issue The Bat! 5.0 in the near future. We know that you will love this upcoming version as much as we do. Please review our upgrade policy to see if you qualify for any specials or promotions.

RITLabs is pleased to announce that The Bat! v4.2.36.4 Home Edition has undergone rigorous testing by Soft32Download Evaluation Team and has been found to be a "high quality software product." The testers were impressed by the clean design of our program. They awarded The Bat! with a 5/5 Stars Rating and "5 stars award". We have worked hard to ensure that our product is the best it can be, and now it is official. The Bat! has been placed in the "Premium Software" category by the evaluation team.

We are pleased to inform you that German portal CHIP Online has included The Bat! 4.2.36 as part of its software distribution to its customers.

A Dutch version of the renowned German c't magazine published a short review of The Bat! Voyager. We don’t speak any Dutch, but it wasn’t hard to realize that the article’s title – “Vleermuis” – stands for “Bat”. And here’s a rough translation of the article’s subheading: “The Bat! Voyager is a mail client which offers more than most of the others”.

A popular German computer magazine, c't, praised The Bat! Email Client.

Recently there have been numerous reports about a new vulnerability in Microsoft email products, which is caused by erroneous processing of POP3 server responses. This vulnerability allows the executing of unauthenticated remote code on the target system.

RITLabs announces an update for The Bat! Voyager. The main improvement of the new version is a significantly faster message retrieval via POP3 servers.

RITLabs brings to users’ attention an update for The Bat!. In this new version we revamped the way SOCKS proxy works with TLS connections.

The Bat! Voyager is a portable version of The Bat! mail client. This program works from a portable device (USB flash drive, external hard disk, etc.), not leaving any traces on computers. The Bat! Voyager is very handy for users that work on several computers and want to secure confidentiality and to protect their private information.

We are pleased to release our regularly-scheduled update to our email client The Bat! We have worked hard to bring you numerous improvements and fixes in this new version. However, one feature that you will notice right off the Bat is a significantly faster retrieval of messages via POP3 servers.

BatPost is an easy-to-customize mail server for corporate and individual users. Its usability and maintainability have already made a name for it. BatPost Server is an ideal solution for providing corporate email solutions and setting up an internal message exchange system.

RITLabs had proven its value and reputation once again. Our email client The Bat! was rated "The Best Email Client of 2009" by the Russian edition of PC World (Mir PK), a world-renowned IT publication.

Christmas holidays are over. We've changed our Christmas splash screen for a standard one, but still continue our series of gifts. In the new version of our portable program The Bat! Voyager, users will get an improvement in large-size message download speed and some other innovations.

Early 2010 for RITLabs is rich in innovations. Freshly launched The Bat! 4.2.23 brings quite a number of improvements and fixes.

New reports on Microsoft Outlook vulnerability came on January, 15. BitDefender reports the unsolicited message directs users to apply a new set of settings to their mailboxes to update several ‘security upgrades’ that have been applied. The link in the email leads towards a Web page with Microsoft Office logos and instructs users to download and launch an executable file that will supposedly update their email settings.

A few days ago RITLabs team has launched The Bat! Voyager Christmas Release. It was a pleasure for developers to act in Santa's role and they wanted to continue it; as a result, RITLabs users now can benefit of another Christmas present – The Bat! 4.2.16.

On the threshold of the winter holidays, RITLabs team makes its users a present – The Bat! Voyager 4.2.14, a portable variant of the most recent version of The Bat!. Major novelties are – compatibility with Windows 7, Menu Navigator and better work with antivirus applications.

Since the previous version came out, developers have added some new features and have made some improvements to the program. The main highlight of The Bat! 4.2.12 is the Menu Navigator and better work with antivirus applications.

The Bat! v4.2.10 has been tested to meet all of the technical requirements to be Compatible with Windows® 7.

Following the release of The Bat! 4.1, RITLabs brings to users’ attention The Bat! Voyager 4.2.9, a portable variant of the new version of The Bat!.

RITLabs draws users' attention to the new version of The Bat! email program. This version has a series of major improvements described below.

Bill Blinn, our devoted user, wrote an article about The Bat!'s new version. We liked it a lot and want you to have a look at it. Here are some extracts from Bill's article.

RITLabs today announced the release of version 4.2. Principal among its new features is the ability for users to schedule when and how emails should be sent.

TheBat! Sync is a special synchronization module (conduit) that synchronizes TheBat! address book and contacts of a Windows Mobile device.

STOPzilla is one of the numerous anti-spyware programs. Not doubting its functionality, we would like to warn The Bat! users about some problems that can appear while working with STOPzilla.

Recently we have made an update of The Bat!, version 4.1.11. Several bugs were fixed, some new features were added.

Following the release of The Bat! 4.1, RITLabs brings to users’ attention The Bat! Voyager 4.1, a portable variant of the new version of The Bat!.

In the new version of The Bat! we introduced a new message base indexes format. This innovation permitted to remove the limit for the message folder volume and to realize multiple message flags.

Users with The Bat! v.4.0 licence, as well as The Bat! v.3 users that purchased the program after November, 20, 2007, can use their existing licence keys with no additional payments or updates.

On the threshold of the winter holidays RITLabs announces the launch of the new version of The Bat! software. The Bat! 4.1 has a series of new useful features and improvements of the functions that are already familiar. The most important enhancement in The Bat! 4.1 is the HTML templates creation option. In the new version creating HTML messages is much easier – in addition to plain text, The Bat! templates can handle the full range of formatting, pictures, background images, tables and other HTML message attributes.

RITLabs draws users' attention to The Bat! update, v.4.0.38. This is a technical update, the version does not contain new options or functional novelties. There are only two improvements compared to v.4.0.34, but in this case quality prevails over quantity.

In the new version a modern tab control was implemented. It uses space effectively and has a "close" button on the selected tab. If one tab or another is not needed anymore, users can just click this button and get rid of that tab.

New version of The Bat! email program has Quick Templates preview option. Quick Templates help you save your working time by inserting specially prepared text fragments. If you are duty bound to answer similar questions or send out stereotyped letters, then you'll highly appreciate this instrument.

In The Bat! 4.0.28 we significantly enhanced the work with Quick Templates. The major improvement is the option of previewing the result of the template's work. Let's concentrate on this particular innovation. In order to see what letter is generated as a result of applying one quick template or another, in previous versions you needed to create such letter using the template and to compare it with your expectations.

Recently Microsoft announced about new vulnerabilities of its applications. The first one was found in Microsoft Office, the other – in Outlook Express and Windows Mail.

RITLabs presents The Bat! 4.0.28, regular update of its The Bat! email program. The major improvements of the new version refer to Quick Templates and to Mozilla Thunderbird messages import option. Other features of the program were also upgraded.

I love email. The pleasure of receiving emails is matched by the pleasure of writing them. An email from a friend, providing happy reading and giving me the opportunity of drafting a carefully crafted reply, makes my day.

In many countries there are laws that give an electronic digital signature the same status as a handwritten signature, and a digitally signed document is equivalent to a manually signed document. Using the new feature of BatPost, senders can get mail dispatch receipts that have legal recognition.

Ritlabs is seeking software engineers experienced in programming graphical user interface controls using Win32 API, to help us to develop The Bat! and the new software products.

Our users keep asking us why from the diversity of the fauna we chose the bat as our product’s name and symbol.

RITLabs announces the release of the new The Bat! update – v.4.0.24. In the new version developers made a series of improvements. Let us now present the most significant innovations.

TheBat.net – is a joint service from Ritlabs, SRL and Google. Now every user of The Bat! v4.xx versions is able to benefit of all the advantages of GMail service under TheBat.net domain name. The Bat! users can process their emails using mobile platforms, get reliable anti-spam and anti-virus protection, integrated search engine, chat and total synchronization of the two versions – mobile and classic.

We added some useful information in the Tips section of our website. It concerns submission forms, an instrument that helps in carrying out protected data transmission between many computers using The Bat!.

Adrian Morant, one of the ARP Webbers Newsletter authors, wrote a short review of The Bat!. ARP Webbers positions itself as “an internet and computing newsletter for active retired people”, so it’s a great honour for us to be reviewed in it.

Our devoted user Mark Geisinger goes on with reviewing The Bat! This time he focuses his attention on The Bat! v4 strengths and weaknesses, speaking of memory usage improvements and other issues. For example, Small Things Count section draws attention to addressee’s name capitalization feature, which is very useful despite being tiny.

Recently a new Microsoft Outlook vulnerability has been reported in the Internet. It is highly critical for the users of this email program and can be exploited by malicious people to compromise users’ systems.

Following the release of The Bat! 4.0, RITLabs brings to users’ attention The Bat! Voyager 4.0 – portable variant of the new version of The Bat!

A month after the release of the 4th version, The Bat! developers announce the update numbered 4.0.18.

- that’s how Mark Geisinger, our devoted user, answers the question about the best Windows email client. Mark uses The Bat! from the very beginning and can easily track the evolution of our product. We’re happy to present Mark’s review of The Bat! on our website.

Softpedia, the famous free download site, published its own review of The Bat! version 4.0.

We bring to users’ notice that the newest version of The Bat! e-mail processing system is to be presented to the general public on February, 7.

Sharon D. Nelson, David K. Isom and John W. Simek, authors of numerous books and articles on internet security and its aspects that are specific for law firms, give a high appreciation to The Bat! mail processing system in their new book entitled Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms.

"In 2007, the words "Internet security" joined the ever-growing list of self-canceling phrases", – claims the PC World Magazine in its recent article. It is titled "The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007" and has the Internet security on the 12th position of the rating.

According to the new license policy, all The Bat! users that purchase the program after November 20, 2007 can use this key not only for The Bat! 3.x.x and 4.0 versions, but also for further The Bat! 4.x.x versions without additional payments or key update.

This notice about some modifications in update policy is brought to your attention due to transition to a new line of The Bat! v.4.

New The Bat! update was made recently. In The Bat! version 3.99.25 two bugs were fixed.

We bring to our clients’ attention that we made a modernization of our telephone lines. As a result, connection quality and speed are essentially improved; that’s specially tangible for fax connection.

RITLabs brings to users’ notice that the newest version of The Bat! e-communication program is to be presented to the general public at the earliest possible date. Currently the final arrangements are made for the release of The Bat! 4.0 version. The newest release is cardinally better than any previous version of the program. The modifications concern various aspects of the program functionality making this version as convenient as possible for every user. Before launching this new version it is suitable to dwell upon each of the major innovations.

The work on The Bat! 4.0 is in full swing, every single day bringing its birth closer. However, before proceeding to a new digit we bring forward a new version of the third generation – The Bat! 3.99.24.

Recently we received a notification about the fact that our company is now officially certified as a Microsoft Partner. A certifying document to confirm this recognition was sent to our office. Signed by two Microsoft Corporation officers – Steven Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer, and Allison Watson, Corporate Vice President Worldwide Partner Group, this certificate officially makes our company a Microsoft Certified Partner.

RITLabs strongly recommends not to use Spyware Terminator now as there are many reports from The Bat! users on problems caused by this piece of software.

RITLabs is proud to communicate that The Bat! email client is now involved in Amnesty International activity. Recently Slovakia office of this organization solicited our program and now they benefit of its assistance in their daily work.

Good news for all BatPost users – recently this program took several tests carried out by Wipro company basing on the methods proposed by Microsoft Corporation. These tests proved the high level of BatPost compatibility with Windows Vista operation system. Basing on these results Microsoft Corporation rendered BatPost the "Certified for Vista" logo in confirmation of our product’s marvelous performance.

RITLabs launched a new version of The Bat! – one of the most popular mail clients. In the new version, The Bat! 3.99, you will find all the functionalities of the program brought to even higher quality level and some useful innovations.

If there's a hole to be found in Windows, the bad guys will find it, and the latest one is definitely unique. A vulnerability in all versions of Windows, including Vista, has been found in how the operating systems handle animated cursors, according to a Microsoft security advisory.

A just-disclosed bug in Windows Vista's built-in e-mail program can be used by hackers to run malicious code on a victimized PC.

It was not long ago that The Bat! 3.98.1 was announced. In this short period of time we’ve prepared a new version – The Bat! 3.98.4 which has some serious new functional features and some significant bugs are fixed. The list of changes is enclosed.

Microsoft had published the list of companies whose applications have earned the Certified for Windows Vista logo or the Works with Windows Vista logo. Ritlabs is proud to announce that The Bat! is included in both lists.

Now that the winter is almost over and and the spring is knocking on the door we would like to bring to light the new version of The Bat! replacing the Christmas Edition.

The US Defence Department has banned the use of Outlook Web Access email and is blocking all HTML email.

It became a tradition at RITLabs to release a Christmas version of The Bat! at the end of each year just before the Christmas itself. It became a tradition at RITLabs to release a Christmas version of The Bat! at the end of each year just before the Christmas itself.

Recently Microsoft Outlook Express users were attacked once again. These new attacks were made through vulnerability caused by a boundary error within the processing of Windows Address Book files (.wab). This vulnerability can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted WAB file.

RITLabs plans to release a new version of The Bat! Certified under the “Works with Vista” logo before Microsoft publishes the final release of Windows Vista.

All this week (October, 23-27) our company is taking part in SYSTEMS-2006 – exhibition taking place in Munich, Germany. SYSTEMS is the leading business-to-business exhibition for information technology, telecommunication and new media. It is an honor for us to be part of such a big event in ICT world.

In The Bat! Private Disk v2.09 Disk Firewall feature is not included. Users who wish to purchase Private disk which is equipped with this newest solution in security sphere can do it at Dekart company site

Recently RITLabs office began receiving phone calls from users who were attacked with spam messages.

RITLabs releases a new version of its proactive data protection product – The Bat! Private Disk.

News agencies are insistent in speaking about Microsoft Outlook vulnerability detected by Sunbelt Software company and iDefence department of VeriSign company. Danger comes from specially prepared HTML messages.

October, 23-27 our company will take part in SYSTEMS-2006 – exhibition taking place in Munich, Germany. SYSTEMS is the leading business-to-business exhibition for information technology, telecommunication and new media. It is an honor for us to be part of such a big event in ICT world.

After the hot summer here comes September with the new The Bat! version.

The Bat! is not just an email client. Many email program creators take its functionality as a benchmark; many IT analysts compare newly-appeared email clients with The Bat!.

On August, 8, 2006 Australian Computer Trader issued an article about The Bat! Voyager.

The LUBRINCO Group (http://www.lubrinco.com/) provides assistance in three areas of high risk too specialized to be dealt with inhouse. They identify and quantify threats and vulnerabilities, and their associated risk, then help manage the vulnerabilities so one can transfer or live with the residual risk. They help prevent disasterous financial loss and physical harm.

The latest version of The Bat! Voyager has received the "100% CLEAN" AWARD from SOFTPEDIA, here is what they say...

Moldovan Army uses RITLabs products May 9-27, Combined Endeavor / Phoenix Endeavor – 2006 international military exercises were carried out for specialists in data transmission and automated process-control system.

The Bat!-tle for a safe portable email begins. Smart road warriors have a new weapon to protect sensitive client data and guard against malicious virus attacks while retrieving email on the road. The Bat! Voyager PRO from RITLabs (www.ritlabs.com) combines the award-winning The Bat! portable email client with powerful encryption software and a unique Disk Firewall feature, all pre-loaded onto a convenient 256MB flash drive.

Ritlabs has released The Bat! Voyager PRO, a secure version of its popular Windows email client software that protects your email, and all of your critical files, when you're on the road. The email software is pre-loaded onto a 256Mb secure flash drive. The unique Disk Firewall Feature from Dekart adds extra protection, ensuring that your data can't be accessed by either human intruders or virus attacks.

The Book "PC Magazine Windows XP Solutions", 2nd edition, by Neil Randall, recommends The Bat! on page 163, for its highly sophisticated filtering and sorting systems.

The new version of the BatPost mail server is out. We have been working on the server over a year managing to implement many useful features and fixing minor bugs. Below we will take a closer look at the main new features.

To cut a long story short - here is a new version of The Bat!, fresh and young, but experienced and still promising.

The e-mail application is flawed in the way it handles Windows Address Book files.

The authors of computer books recommend The Bat! as a protection against viruses that spread via e-mail.

In the pursuit of a perfect piece of software we bring you yet another version of The Bat!

On February 8, 2006 Microsoft announced a new vulnerability in WMF. The Bat! v3.65.03 and all the later versions do not display WMF, however the earlier versions did make use of the Microsoft's code that has been the target of the attacks.

At present besides the English version of the plugin, and the subsequently developed (at the request and with the help of the users) German, Polish and Czech versions.

New year - new version. This time round we concentrated on fixing as many bugs as possible, thus improving the programme's overall stability and functionality.

The Bat! is not affected by the TNEF Decoding Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, discovered by John Heasman and Marc Litchfield of NGS Software.

Ritlabs releases The Bat! Voyager – the Mobile Email Client . Ritlabs releases The Bat! Voyager – the Mobile Email Client . Now it has become possible to have the complete message base and important documents at one's fingertips. The programme is now specially adopted to be working in the USB-flash disk. The Bat! Voyager is based on the technology of the widely known The Bat! Email Client.

Beside the Christmas discounts we bring our customers a new version of the programme - The Bat! v3.64 Christmas Edition.

New The Bat! Private Disk supports Windows 2003 Server and allows working with the program when logged as "Guest" at the computer.

Ritlabs releases The Bat! v3.62.14. Improved memory usage, new ability to create message list tabs and various bug fixes.

In this version of The Bat! we made another few steps aimed at improving the programme's functionality and overall stability.

At present besides the English version there also exist the plugin versions in German, Polish, and Czech.

The Antispam plugin for The Bat! is now sold at the price of $12. There is also quantity discounting.

This threat could allow for remote code execution under Windows XP SP0 - SP1 and Windows 2000.

The Bat! 3.60 works faster and consumes less memory when dealing with very large message flows. Message Finder in this version can now automatically search inside encrypted messages. You can zoom images in the HTML viewer. Regular Expressions in Sorting Office/Filters now support Unicode and can work with any alphabet. You can also configure SmartPad settings.

Trainable antispam-plugin for "The Bat!" on the basis of the AGAVA AntispamServant spam filter. Developed with the assistance of the Ritlabs company and is sold at a special price of $20 for "The Bat!" users! High quality of spam filtering guaranteed!

The new version of The Bat!, 3.51, is an improvement of 3.5 in the field of speed, stability and the support of corporate protocols: IMAP and Exchange server via MAPI. We've also improved import procedures of messages and address entries from MS Outlook and Outlook Express. In the new version, you can reply to HTML messages preserving the text formatting of the original letter. When replying to a multipart message, with previous version of The Bat! you could only reply to the main section of a letter. Now you can reply to any particular part of the message.

The Bat! is immune to the vulnerability within the Microsoft Colour Management Module (CMM), a component included within most Windows systems. CMM processes image files for a wide variety of formats including JPEG, EXIF, TIFF, PNG, PDF, PICT, PostScript, JDF (Job Definition Format), SVG, and CSS3.

The user interface is now fully customizable. You can create your own custom tool bars, add/remove items in the menus...

SoftSymphony Ltd. Announces the Release of Bat2PPC.

The Bat! 3.5 has the following major improvements: fully customizable user interface, On-The-Fly-Encryption and Biometric authentication, as well as many other new features and bugfixes.

The Bat! is immune to the vulnerability reported by security company eEye Digital Security Inc., that could let an attacker compromise a user's machine after the user clicks on a Web link.

When trying to move or to remove a folder that contains many subfolders in Outlook, the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service stops responding, and event 9673 is recorded.

RITLabs SRL is about to release a new product – The Bat! Voyager.

The new variant of MyDoom worm, W32.Mydoom.AX@mm, that uses its own SMTP engine to send an email to addresses in active mail client windows on infected computers, does not affect The Bat!

The Bat! is not affected by the vulnerability reported by Danish security firm Secunia, called window injection vulnerability.

The Bat! has no boundary error in the handling of certain attributes in the IFRAME HTML tag.

The Sorting Office interface has been improved. The user can now search though the filters. The Sorting Office window has been given a new toolbar. The About box has been given a facelift. The IMAP protocol has been improved. The Bat! now consumes less memory and works much faster when viewing or editing large HTML messages. Many bugs have been fixed.

You are welcome to the new three forums at our website where you can discuss in a friendly manner the issues about The Bat! Configuration, The New Filtering System, and The Templates and Macros.

Security flaws in JPEG format do not affect The Bat!, because The Bat! does not use GDI+ which is the target of the attack.

In The Bat! 3.0, amongst all the improvements the most visually outstanding is the new look user interface and that Sorting Office that has a new flow chart style front end, which really simplifies the management of message filtering.

The Bat! is invulnerable to the denial of service attack which is possible due to a lack of adequate verification for malformed e-mail headers.

This new version provides significantly improved IMAP and Exchange functionality, extended anti-virus API to support Unicode, better folder compression algorithm that also defragments message base and index files on NTFS volumes, and many other improvements and fixes.

The Bat! version 2.11 brings the new exciting "Mail Chat" function!

Ritlabs is glad to announce a new version of The Bat! program with an unique feature of Mail Chat that will be published on June 1, 2004.

The Bat! earns Web Host Magazine & Buyer's Guide: Editors' Choice Award.

The Bat! v2.01 is now available. It introduces more Anti-spam options, better support of GnuPG and TLS.