The Bat! is an Internet e-mail client working under Windows 95/98 and NT.
What's new in The Bat! 1.15?
[-] Message Finder may not display contents of some messages if searching messages in different folders.
[-] Application could stop processing to one minute while storing received messages.
[*] Message storing now is slightly faster.
[-] Coma is now used instead of semicolon as an address separator.
[-] Fixed invalid print template with old THEBAT.LNG
[-] It was able to search messages in password-protected account.
[-] Fixed processing of default folder encoding.
[-] It wasn't possible to save some UUEncoded attachment if they were stored in message body.
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Version 1.14
- Fixed mass print of address book memos.
! Quick Search in message list. Just start typing.
+ Edit Personal vCard in Account/Properties.
+ Message Editor/Utilities/Attach Personal vCard.
+ %ATTACHVCARD macro.
- Fixed "FillRect" bug.
Version 1.101
+ Ability to import addressees' photos from GIF and JPEG format. Quick tip: for best results, crop the picture to 120x144 JPEG.
- Fixes with adding new addressee to the address book.
- Fixed "Printer is not currently printing" error while trying to change rage of pages.
+ Ability to import V-Cards (VCF files) from attachments.
+ V-Card and LDiff now allow photographs.
+ Folder/Kill Dupes. It allows to kill the duplicate messages (with the same "From:", "To:", "Date:" and "Message-ID:") form a folder.
* "Priority" kludge has been changed to "X-Priority" for better compatibility.
* Proportional scroll bars in folder list, address list and some other controls.
Version 1.1
! Dutch, German, French & Italian SSCE Spell Checkers.
* Increased speed of loading large messages with Quoted-Printable encoding.
* Fixed Ctrl/End and Ctrl/PgDn in message editor.
- Multi-line cookies might not work.
- In networking mode, users had the ability to create new accounts and delete existing accounts.
- Fixed quoted-printable encoding handling in message header.
- Context menu button didn't work in message editor.
- Message editor didn't allow apostrophes in address field.
- Check PGP signature / Import PGP key might not work if the lines were wrapped.
+ "Continue Processing" checkbox in Options tab of Sorting Office/Filters dialog. With this option turned on, if the rule match, it continues checking for other rules and can execute multiple rules simultaneously.
+ "Options Menu" checkbox in user access rights of Network and Administration dialog. It allows to a user to operate with "Options" menu except "Network & Administration" & "Dial-up Monitor".
+ %DateEn & %ODateEn, %TimeLongEn & %OTimeLongEn macros. It displays date/time in english, regardless currently installed system language.
+ %OTextSize macro. Size of original message, in bytes.
+ %Charset macro. Allows to change the charset for the message.
+ %Attachments & %OAttachments macro. Displays the list of attached file, with full path names. If there are no attached files in the message, it displays "<none>".
+ Ability to print a range of pages.
* Smarter URL highlighting. It allows coma characters in URL (e.g. "http://www.download.com/PC/Result/TitleDetail/0,4,0-51419,1000.html") and processes dots in the end of URL, e.g. www.ritlabs.com.
+ It is possible to wait for completion of an external program run by filter. You may generate auto-reply message with the results of an external program execution.
! Brand-new Address Book with sharing and LDAP support, personal templates, VCF, LDIFF, photographs, etc.
+ The Bat! can internally display GIF, JPEG, progressive JPEG, WMF, BMP and ICO. This feature can be switched of via Options/Use External Image Viewer.
- Mail dispatcher didn't affect "receive only if message size is greater than" option when calculating free disk space.
- Current folder didn't get updated after "Compress All" / "Purge All".
+ %BLANK macro. This macro is always translating to an empty string and may be used if you wish to have the blank template in a folder.
- It was possible to write a message from password-protected account via address book.
* "O" shortcut has been removed from "OK" buttons in dialog boxes.
- Fixed crash when pressing "Reply All" to a message with 1000 addresses in "To:" field.
- It was unable to print attached message (in .MSG format) after opening it.
- There was %FROMADDR macro in RecipientInfo group of Macros pop-up menu button of account properties dialog.
- Fixed bug with processing coma-separated addresses in address grid of a message editor.
- With password-protected accounts, newly created folders did ignore password protection.
- When making a mouse double-click on an empty line below two non-empty, the wrong selection did occur.
- Fixed access violation error when re-sending a message attached to another one.
- In templates after inserting a macro string from the popup menu the string did remain in the clipboard buffer.
- Fixed header repaint when using Windows Large Fonts.
+ It is now possible to toggle message part tabs with Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab.
+ Message size is now shown in message headers.
+ Sender's organisation is now shown in message headers.
! Non-empty outbox folder is now coloured green.
Version 1.043
! New Installer.
! Installed size of The Bat! became almost twice smaller!
+ File Association dialog. If there is no application associated with current extension and it came an attachment with unassociated extension and the user tries to open this attachment, The Bat! invokes File Association dialog.
+ New Macro %WINDOWSMAJORVERSION - Identifies the major version number of the operating system. For example, for Windows NT version 3.51, the major version number is 3; and for Windows NT version 4.0, the major version number is 4. This macro is used in Bug Report template by default.
+ New Macro %WINDOWSMINORVERSION - Identifies the minor version number of the operating system. For example, for Windows NT version 3.51, the minor version number is 51; and for Windows NT version 4.0, the minor version number is 0. This macro is used in Bug Report template by default.
+ New Macro %WINDOWSBUILDNUMBER - Identifies the build number of the operating system. This macro is used in Bug Report template by default.
+ New Macro %WINDOWSCSDVERSION - For Windows NT: contains a null-terminated string, such as "Service Pack 3", that indicates the latest Service Pack installed on the system. If no Service Pack has been installed, the string is empty; for Windows 95: contains a null-terminated string that provides arbitrary additional information about the operating system. This macro is used in Bug Report template by default.
+ New Macro %WINDOWSPLATFORMNAME - Identifies Windows Platform name, e.g. Windows NT, Windows 95 or Windows 98. This macro is used in Bug Report template by default.
+ New Macro %THEBATVERSION - Identifies the version number of The Bat! This macro is used in Bug Report template by default.
+ New Macro %ACCOUNTNAME - Identifies the name of a current account. This macro is used in print template by default.
+ New Macro %FOLDERNAME - Identifies the name of a current folder. This macro is used in print template by default.
+ New Macro %FOLDERFROMNAME - Identifies the name of a user (kludge "From:") for a current account. This macro is used in print template by default.
+ New Macro %FOLDERFROMADDR - Identifies the e-mail address of a user (kludge "From:") for a current account. This macro is used in print template by default.
+ New Macro %FOLDERREPLYNAME - Identifies the name of a user (kludge "Reply-To:") for a current account. This macro is used in print template by default.
+ New Macro %FOLDERREPLYADDR - Identifies the e-mail address of a user (kludge "Reply-To:") for a current account. This macro is used in print template by default.
+ Advanced print template. Print template (Message/Print/Template Tab) allows any macros that are allowed for Account/Folder.
- Fixed insertion of tab characters into text editor.
! Advanced Search (Message Finder/Advanced tab).
Version 1.041
+ Auto-combine feature. Some mailers, like Microsoft Outlook, can split large messages to smaller parts. The Bat! now can automatically combine them.
* Smarter cursor movement on message deletion.
- Fixed "Reply To All".
- Fixed a "Cookie" bug of 1.035.
- Fixed Auto-completion bug in Message Editor.
- Default encoding didn't apply message headers.
Version 1.039
+ Added RETURNPATH template macro.
* Updated German resource.
- Fixed UUEncode attachment name extraction bug of 1.037
- Fixed Reply-To field processing in message forwarder.
Version 1.037
+ Improved submission forms (see http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/forms.html).
+ Improved mailing list server functions (see http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/mailing_lists.html by Leif Gregory).
- Some fixes with multipart message processing.
* WindowsNT SMTP Server didn't allow to send more then one message.
- Combined delivery didn't work with automatic account checking.
Version 1.036
* The Bat! consumes much less of valuable CPU cycles while flying in system tray.
- Fixed some bugs of 1.035
- Fixed "Invalid Typecast" error
- Using Read Filters could prevent messages from being marked as Read.
- Outbox didn't update on Message/Resend.
Version 1.035
+ New pre-defined fields macros: %FROM="" (Additional "From" sender) and %REPLYTO (Additional "Reply-To" sender).
+ Nested macros. It is now possible to use such expressions as %FROM="%OFROMNAME <%OFROMADDR>"
+ Full support of CSAPI spell checker.
* Interface improvements.
- Quoted recipient mail names and commas in user names are now allowed.
* When SMTP server reports error on a message, The Bat! now continues sending other messages.
* Template editor remembers its position and size.
- Fixed Mail Ticker (tm) settings storage/retrieval.
Version 1.032
* The destination address is displayed in Edit Mail Message Window title.
+ Account deletion procedure gets smarter!
- Some fixes with Tray Icon API.
- Fixed Mail Ticker (tm) settings storage/retrieval.
Version 1.031
- Find Next (F3) string did not carried forward between messages.
- Some minor fixes.
Version 1.029
+ The Bat! can use Internet Explorer 4.0+ notification that the taskbar has been re-created. When The Bat! receives this notification, it assumes that the tray icon "Flying Bat!" has been removed and adds it again.
- Fixed "automatic spell checking On/Off" in message editor.
- Mail sent from non-tcp/ip workstation accounts that is sent out through the server machine didn't move from "outbox" to "sent" without manually refreshing the folders.
- Fixed window focus while retrieving mail.
- Filter action to export the message to a specific file didn't not work properly.
Version 1.028
+ Total message count in subfolders is also displayed as well as unread message count.
- The messages in Finder Window didn't sort after search completion.
- When browsing messages in Finder Window, the current user/folder name is displaying in the bottom line.
- It was possible to delete a folded that contained parked messages.
- The text of "Sent" column was shifted several pixels down.
- When creating a reading confirmation message, the destination address was taken from Reply-To instead of X-Confirm-Reading field.
- Fixed invalid WordWrap in Folder View Window.
- Fixed a trap when printing a large messages list while new mail arrives.
+ The Bat! now can print any page of multi-page message.
- Folder Properties/Identity/Organisation field was ignored, its value was always taken from User's General Options.
- 'Decrypt PGP' option from 'Specials' submenu in Folder View window didn't work.
- Emptying a folder with unread messages didn't affect Mail Ticker(tm).
- Fixed 'Privileged instruction' when trying to import a digital key.
+ Added recursive unread message calculation in Mailbox/Folder tree.
- Message body didn't refresh in Outbox AutoView after re-edit it.
- Creating a new folder in root directory and then its deletion caused crash.
- SendTo link used the last user's account when entering as Administrator.
- Users could change global options in Administrative mode.
+ Added highly-improved method of loading Dynamic-Linking Libraries. It saves the amount of memory used by The Bat! by up to three megabytes.
+ Added YaHoo! menu option.
+ Added "How To Register" menu option.
- Fixed on-exit crash.
- Fixed attachment default directory.
- Fixed "List index out of bounds" error when pressing Alt+J on selected text which contained a template of new message with some extra lines.
- The "zoomed" ticker bar was too easily moved off when double-clicking to view mail.
- Selecting "English" as a default language on install could activate the current language on international version of Windows.
- Fixed "Created" time adjustment.
- The "Mail Ticker" contents didn't refresh after message deletion.
- The ticker did allow any user to view any other user's mail an Administrative mode.
- Speed of Address Book increased.
- The newly created accounts could disappear in Administrative mode.
- The order of folders could not be saved.
- Fixed a bug caused by using illegal characters (e.g. "/") in a folder/mailbox name.
- The Address book could not be saved on exit.
- A drop-down list could not fit the window when importing an address book from coma-separated file.
- The message could be automatically read when The Bat! was minimised to tray.
- Some lines in Account Log could not fit the window.
- Filter to move mails from inbox of one account to the inbox of another account could not be created while using the pop-up-menu.
- Low disk space could cause message losses.
- Subj was mixed with From fields in Message Finder.
- When an account (not a folder) was selected in a mailbox/folder list, clicking "From"/"To"/"Subject" fields erased their captions.
- The selection did not clear entirely in AutoView area.
- Low disk space didn't handle when exporting messages to *.MSG files.
- Trying to select from address history a line with more than 200 addressees caused crash.
+ POP3 LazyDelete feature. A message is deleting on POP3 sever after the confirmation that it was successfully stored to a message base.
- Fixed a Message Dispatcher trap when receiving a message after deletion of a large list.
+ The registration code is filling automatically when pressing "Enter Registration Code" on the message, containing the code.
- Fixed Long Filename Mail vulnerability.
- When putting a message with High/Low priority in Outbox and then re-editing it, the priority was set to Normal.
- Fixed IMAP date & IMAP multiply instance bug.
- "Auto-disconnect after mail transmission" feature did ignore IMAP connections.
* Data is now passing to PGP5 API via memory buffers, not temp files.
+ "Re-filter folder" command in the "Tools" menu allows re-filtering messages in a particular folder when, for example, new filters were created.
+ "Manual only" mode for mail filters. This allows applying filters only when the user wishes to do so with the "Re-filter folder" command.
+ "Purge+Compress", "Compress All" and "Purge All" commands in the "Folder" menu.
- Some fixes with multipart digests processing (they should be correctly displayed from now, although some issues remain unresolved yet)
- Multi-page messages weren't printed correctly
- Double click on the Mail Ticker forced the main window appearance if it was minimised
- The number of new messages in subfolders of a complex folder structure was counted incorrectl
- The editor colour settings weren't saved correctly
! SmartScroll. Allows you to see whether a next message exists in scrolling direction
+ Cyrillic Apple Standard Charset support
* Auto Scroll Bars in message editor
- Fixed extra space before 8-bit lines of message header
- Fixed message marking as read while retrieving from server
- The "zoomed" Mail Ticker(tm) bar was too easily moved off when double-clicking to view mail
- The folders were not purged on Windows Shutdown
- "End of search" dialog has changed the focus
- Miscellaneous fixes
Version 1.015
- Fixed flickering while deleting a large message list.
- Message wasn't refreshed after re-edit it.
- The Select all from the Message menu does not work.
- Deleting a root folder could cause traps.
- Font style of a message ticker hasn't been saved.
- Fixed drag cursor when creating a reading confirmation.
- Fixed a memory leak while dragging-dropping messages.
- Fixed socket's shutdown.
- Fixed message ticker clean-up.
- Fixed "SendTo:" URL processing in muli-user environment.
- Fixed minimization animation.
- Fixed clash between tip of the day and enter password dialogues on start-up.
- Fixed editor focusing.
- Fixed execution under Windows NT 3.51 with NewShell.
- Fixed 8-bit headers.
- Fixed import from UNIX-mailboxes.
- Fixed attachment processing on import.
- Fixed "List Out Of Bounds" error message while sending queued mail.
Version 1.011
- "Registration..." dialogue box is not more modal.
+ IntelliMouse wheel support under Windows 95 Earlier Releases and
Windows NT 3.51 with NewShell.
* Smart IntelliMouse wheel-apply.
- The Park Message button didn't work in the View Folder window.
- The Bat! didn't allow system to shut down.
- Fixed traps while closing The Bat!.
- Fixed "Cannot Focus Window" error in sorting properties.
- Folder hierarchy didn't save after moving folders with Alt key.
- The flag "include subfolders" (in search screen) didn't work.
- The Bat! didn't import sorting filters from existing mailbox file.
- Ticker options didn't save.
- Mail Ticker could trap The Bat!.
- Open Reply progress message hasn't been closed.
- Fixed printer spooling troubles.
- "Browse program to be started" dialogue box didn't display .EXE files even though 'Program files' are selected in the File Type drop down.
- Save Draft button didn't have a hint.
* Fixed ISO-8859-2 charset.
- MailBox Import Wizard Window did allow resizing.
- The attachment folded path hasn't been saved.
- Non-TCP/IP workstation did actually require wsock32.dll.
- The position of split controls didn't save on exit.
- Fixed message splitter behaviour.
- Fixed troubles with Time Zone correction.
Version 1.00 Build 1349
+ IMAP4rev1 protocol is now supported.
+ The Tip Of The Day window
+ Message Ticker extends mail notification facilities of The Bat!
+ Floating/dockable toolbars in the main window. You can dock toolbars to any side of the window and to the traditional toolbar place.
+ Additional Configuration toolbar.
+ "Tools | Insert Cookie" menu command in the message editor to insert a cookie wherever you want.
+ Import Wizard helps you to import mailboxes from major e-mail clients: Netscape, MS Mail/Outlook, Eudora and Pegasus Mail. Check out "Tools | Import messages | Import Wizard"
+ Added logo colour auto-adjustment and dithering for 16-color, 256-color and high/true-colour displays.
+ It is now possible to copy message header bar's fields (From/To/Subject).
+ "Tools | Import messages | Import messages " message files allows import of multiple files at a time.
+ Common Speller API spell checker support.
+ New Template Macros: "%READCONFIRM", "%RCPTCONFIRM", "%SIGNCOMPLETE","%ENCRYPTCOMPLETE".
+ Mime/Encode type is now displayed on Open File dialog title.
* Resizing header of Dial-up Monitor / Queue didn't resize the columns.
* Windows 98 is now detecting while creating a bug-reporting template.
* Ctrl+C in Folder Viewer / Message Finder windows now copies the selection into clipboard.
* Pasting a tab character from clipboard has inserted a "box character" instead.
* Some fixes with "Sign when completed" & "Encrypt when completed".
* Support to cc:Mail UUE attachments.
* Print message / Save message for embedded messages.
* Advanced mailto: URL processing.
* Speed of importing address book from INI file has been sufficiently increased.
* Netscape attachments has been stored inside message bodies.
* Interface Language is selecting automatically accordingly to default users' locale.
* Font character set is selected automatically accordingly to default users' locale.
* Alt+Arrows also work in Folder View and Finder windows.
* An error message is displayed on attempt to delete parked message.
* An error message in displayed on unsuccessful attempt to find a reply.
- Fixed case-insensitive username problem in Win95 that caused re-registration.
- "Message | Resend" caused trap if it were no messages selected.
- The Bat! always asked to be the default e-mail client on startup.
- It was impossible to send messages to a Address Book Group named with using 8-bit (national) characters.
- Reception of forwarded messages could cause "Invalid character in Base64 line" error.
- Tray Pop-up didn't hide when clicking outside its area.
- When both options "Combined delivery" & "Check new mail on startup" were turned on, The Bat! didn't automatically sent out the Outbox on startup.
- When deleting an account, using "Delete all files related to this account" option deleted all the files, but was leaving the directory structure on your disk.
- Windows build number wasn't displayed properly in bug-report template, it was something like "Windows 95 4.0 Build 67109975 B" instead of "Windows 95 4.0 Build 1111 B"
- Changing Options/Active Account in message editor was giving a possibility to send a message from another The Bat! user account that might have been password-protected.
- When clicking to another user account, and the last read message was unconfirmed, The Bat! has send a confirmation from newly selected account instead of the proper one.
- Pressing Macros button of Folder Properties dialog caused trap.
- Changing active address book from Editor's Add Recipients dialog caused a trap.
- Send To The Bat! from Windows Explorer was rendering file names to 8.3 naming scheme.
- It was not possible to activate the editor control after attaching files using the mouse.
- Fixed Palette Distortion of Logo on 256-color displays.
- Special characters were not decoded while importing address book from INI file.
- Sample control wasn't repainted properly in Editor Preferences Dialog.
- Scrolling messages in Folder Viewer using space bar with messages list turned off caused "Cannot focus invisible window" error.
Version 1.00 Build 1336
+ PGP5 support.
+ "Sign when complete" & "Encrypt when complete" editor options.
- Send/Receive progress forms did hide out when minimising TheBat! Restoring TheBat! didn't show up these forms.
- Now can start minimised from desktop shortcut.
- Fixed dot character processing when receiving messages.
- Fixed tiny memory leaks.
Version 1.00 Build 1334
- Some grammatical fixes of Russian resource.
- Dropping from address menu an address placed the text to the first editor window, not to the current one.
- Fixed some characters in the default KOI8 XLAT table.
- Added PGP sign&encrypt feature.
- Fixed "mailto:" URL problem with MSIE4.
- It's now possible to mark a word in editor by double-clicking it. Also, there has been added a possibility to open URL links in editor window.
* It has been possible e.g., to reply a message twice at a time. Now TheBat! brings up the currently active editor window.
* Find Text (Ctrl+Q F or Ctrl+F) and Find Next Text (Ctrl+L or F3) items added to menus.
- Exiting TheBat! after printing a message caused traps.
- Fixed some cosmetic changes of Build 1332-1333 with transfer progress indicator and language changing.
- "Nothing to send" error box doesn't appear when serving remote mail-boxes.
- Temporary files are deleting instantly, not on exit.
* Added ISO-8859-5 charset.
Version 1.00 Build 1333
* The Bat! now handles Universal Line Ends. It is now possible to receive mail from some RFC-incompatible POP-servers (e.g. pop.hotmail.com), that used LF-only as Line End.
- Pressing 'Cancel' button in "Log on to The Bat!" dialogue box caused crash.
- Fixed invalid space character processing of "mailto:" URL.
* RAS Error dialogs automatically disappear after 5 seconds to proceed attempts.
- Fixed improper 'auto-disconnection'.
Version 1.00 Build 1332
- Fixed bugs of Options/Network & Administration dialogue box. Changing machine mode to "TCP/IP or Dial-Out Server" or "Non-TCP/IP Workstation" caused TheBat! hang on exit and left current settings unsaved.
+ Added "Network & Administration / Allow Local Delivery" mode. It allows several machines working in a local network exchange messages without using SMTP/POP server at all. This feature brings an efficient solution for building corporate mail-exchange networks without using Internet Mail Transfer Protocols. When "Allow Local Delivery" is on, the outgoing messages, addressed to local users, are dispatching directly by putting them to users' message bases, instead of sending them to SMTP server.
- Fixed a bug with sharing violation of USERS.FLD file. It was caused by improper handling of FILE_DELETE_ON_CLOSE mode under Windows NT.
- Fixed a bug caused "List index out of bounds" error while trying to access a message with unexisted charset after purging the list of Options/Xlat Tables.
- Fixed a bug of Build 1331 with improper message encoding on delivery.
* Newly-received messages are importing with "Importing messages..." caption.
- Small fixes with threads processing.
- Fixed a bug with improper processing of kludges that didn't contain a space character between ID and Value.
Version 1.00 Build 1331
- It was possible to send a message from a password-protected account.
* Improved speed of storing incoming and composing outgoing messages.
- Fixed some bugs with attachment processing.
- Many small fixes.
- Emptying trash folder of password-protected account could cause troubles (Graham Foster).
Version 1.00 Build 1328
* Imported messages are now being marked as unread.
- Fixed some POP/SMTP-related on-exit traps.
- Physical absence of Windows Temp directory could cause lot of severe problems.
- Process handles were not closed after executing external PGP application.
- Passing handles to external PGP application could cause The Bat! fail.
- Fixed "Stack Overflow" error, appeared when input line of editor string grid has consisted of a single space character.
+ Possibility to decrypt incoming PGP-encrypted messages (Shift+Ctrl+D). Decrypted messages are placing into Inbox as unread messages.
- Some cosmetic fixes.
* In case of any abuses or bugs detected while using it, please don't
hesitate to write us to:
Information requests : info@thebat.net
Bug reports : bugs@thebat.net
Useful suggestions : wish@thebat.net
Version 1.00 Build 1327
- Fixed launching external applications.
- Fixed empty body & Invalid Base64 processing.
- Better attachment processing.
- %INCLUDE & %PUT template macros.
+ New encoding tables (DOS-866, KOI8-WIN, WIN-KOI8).
- Interface language didn't memorise after set-up.
* Improved address book search. Speed has been significally increased.
Version 1.00 Build 1326
- Fixed the on-exit trap.
- Maximised window has appeared slightly lower.
+ IntellyMouse(tm) Wheel support.
- Fixed trap of "Open Reply", also some fixes with encoding.
* Main window appears on start-up nicer.
- Fixed SMTP/POP window pop-ups.
+ Delete attach item.
Version 1.00 Build 1324
* "Disconnect in progress" doesn't appear.
- Installation could be done improperly.
- Installation could overwrite a user directory.
- Changing encoding could leave Subject field unchanged.
- Content-type of sent out attached files was "application/octet-stream" always. Not it's taking from System Registry.
- "Empty" Folder menu item didn't ask confirmation.
- Fixed the main icon.
- Esc rerfeshed messages list in main window.
- Periodical mailbox checking could annoy while editing mail message.
Version 1.00 Build 1322
* A message, contained a single page of HTML, also displays an attachment.
* Selecting a folder do not select the first message automatically.
- Empty "From Address" and "Reply-To Address" fields of account settings caused improper kludges generation.
- Copy/Move To Folder popup item didn't work in Message Viewer.
- Message Viewer memorises its position.
- Some cosmetic fixes (Igor V. Dorohin).
- Headers has a wrong translation of space character (Thomas Hansen).
- "Tools, Check mail for all accounts" didn't send queued mail even if the "combined delivery" was on (Thomas Hansen).
- "Tools, Send Queued mail from all accounts" caused minimize of main window (Thomas Hansen).
* Inline messages are now decoded (Michael Popov).
- Pressing Alt+Backspace in header fields of Message Editor window caused undo downwards (Peter Gannushkin).
+ Select All in editor window.
* New Icons (Stanislav Polozov).
- Found messages didn't sort.
Version 1.00 Build 1320
- "Full-height Account Tree" mode didn't work after restart.
- Some messages could cause "Invalid BASE64" encoding.
- Opening attached HTML message parts asked a file name to save to.
- Memory leaks.
Version 1.00 Build 1319
- Extra CR/LF were added to the end of each message (Peter Gannushkin).
- Some major fixes with attachment processing (Peter Gannushkin).
* HTML pages are now also shown as attachments.
- Fixed attachment name processing (Karlo Tskitishvili).
- Fixed a procedure of opening a message from the Dispatcher (Ogonyok online team).
- 'Add to Dictionary' editor pop-up command was not working (Kenneth Kwan and others).
- Broken message base could cause traps (Slava Filimonov).
- Fixed message reception from POP servers that did not support UIDL command (Ulrich Peters).
- Main window state was switching to normal in case of unsuccessful connection to POP server.
+ Open/Save file dialogs now support all file types associated in system registry.
* Faster icon recognition.
* Faster address book export to an INI-file.
- It was impossible to store attached file from an editor window.
- Mail Dispatcher could have been loaded abnormally.
- Under Win95, the cursor was jumping to the first message after deletion of the second one.
- Under Win95, selecting a folder did not activate a message.
* Search window can be closed by Escape key.
- Fixed positioning of a Folder View window.
* Improved Dial-Up support.
Version 1.00 Build 1316
+ Updated languages (Russian, Polish, Dutch, Romanian)
- Autoview reswitch.
* Saving address book position
- Broken base scan & message list display could hang up
- Messages have been marked as read when autoview was off
- Fixed cursor overjump under Win95
- Wrapping could occur incorrectly if previously viewed message consisted attachments
- Nested multipart messages did not display properly
- Launching a second instance of the program caused hang ups
- Clicking right mouse button on empty folder caused "List index is out of bounds" error message
- Message that did not contain EOL after the last line have been displayed with wrong extra characters
- Password query form did not work properly
- Fixed "Paste as Quotation from FILE" icon
- Charset change in editor did not occur.
- Doubleclick on e-mail address in viewer has created an editor with emtpy
"To:" field.
Version 1.00 Build 1311
- Alt+F10 does work.
- "Select All" in message autoview (Peter Gannushkin).
- List index out of bounds (Pavel Grodek).
- Drag&Drop attach (Graham Foster).
- Horizontal split line moved up when the main window was maximized on startup.
- Deleting attached file (Stas Polozov).
- Import of empty bodied message (Igor V. Dorohin).
- Folder Viewer positon and size parameters has not been set properly (Serge Matveev, Stas Polozov).
- Message count has not been refreshed when moving messages between different subfolders (Peter C Mertens).
- Folder Viewer positon has not been memorized (Hagai Bar-El).
- Under Windows 95, all the messages within a folder were selected when clicking the folder.
- "Stop" button in message finder.
- Many other fixes.
Version 1.00 Christmas Preview:
+ Copy/Paste functions are added for address pop-up menu
+ "Create Filter" function in File - Specials menu
+ "Open reply" function allows to view replies and original messages (File - Specials menu)
+ Distinction between message creation and reception time
* Address input dialogue for message editor is modified - it is now possible to add addresses to TO, CC and BCC fields
- Bugs difficult to describe, but rather dangerous for the entire program functioning
- Bugs with determining of character width for some fonts
- Ctrl+X in the message editor was working as Delete (instead of cutting text into Clipboard)
Version 1.00 Preview 2:
+ Actions for message filters - see Actions page in Sorting Office configuration dialogue. In short, auto-replies, automatic adding/removing addresses to/from address books, auto-forwarding and many more
+ Filters: it is now possible to move messages into another account's folders
+ Kill filters. There are three ways to determine whether a message must be deleted: by originator, by subject string or by routing information ("Received" kludges) substring.
+ Move and Copy message to another folder commands for doing this using keyboard.
- memory leaks
- some bugs with POP3 retrieval causing leaving new messages on the server without downloading them
- Trumpet Winsock problem ("could not open socket" messages in the log)
- Problem with registering as a mail client for Windows
- Problem with saving newly created account settings
* Results of forced spell checking are now shown
* "Use an existing Dial-up connection" checkbox in the network configuration
* Speed of the whole thing (especially mail retrieval, creating of reading confirmation and new message window opening) is increased (we hope)
Version 1.00 Preview 1:
+ Multi-lingual spell checker engine is now implemented. Two standard lexicons are included in the distribution (American and British English). There are two modes of text checking - while you are typing and standard.
+ Dial-up networking support: it is possible to connect automatically to your ISP whenever you want to send or receive mail and disconnect after mail transfer. Each account can have its own Dial-up networking settings
+ Support of multi-user environment: Administrator/User access privileges, initial logon (if there were any non-administrative accounts defined). See Options|Network & Administration dialogue
+ Account Creation Wizard
+ Full address book is now accessible from message editor: click on Address Book button or Shift+Enter when an address input field is active
+ Reply counter in subjects
+ Three splitting modes for main window (See View submenu)
+ POP3 Password change function: if your mail server supports POPPassd protocol (running on TCP port 106), you are able to change the password of your POP3 mailbox without administrator's help
+ Three new interface languages are added: Swedish, Italian and Lithuanian
* It is now possible to enter both username and password (and store them to use further) when POP3 logon fails or password is required
* When pasting mailto: URL in message editor's address input field, mailto: is stripped so copying URLs from Web browsers is now easier than before
* Parking flag column in message list can be hidden
- Bug with using Help (Help file wasn't found when the active directory was different to The Bat! executable directory).
- UU decoding bug - last bytes could be damaged
- Mail wasn't deleted correctly from separate window message viewer
+ Shift+Get new mail/Send queued mail button on the main window toolbar
invokes fetching/sending mail for all accounts.
+ "New message" command for Tray pop-up menu.
+ When the program is minimized to Tray, the amount of new messages is shown in the icon's hint
+ %SUBJECT="...", %TO="...", %CC="...", %BCC="..." template macros for pre-defining of appropriate fields.
- Ctrl+Z/X/C/V shortcuts weren't working in the message text area
* Some changes with POP3 retrieval
* International interface resources are now placed in the file THEBAT.LNG - the size of the program's executable is sufficiently smaller than before.
Version 1.00.93:
- This is almost a bug-fix version. There are many bugs fixed with POP message retrieval, memory leaks etc. The program became more stable.
* Account folders structure, sorting option and received message information are now saved in ACCOUNT.* files in account's home directory (there will be entire program's configuration saved into one file to make it exportable to other computers)
* Interface is slightly changed. We hope it's now nicer than before...
+ It is now possible to define sender's information for messages for each folder
+ It is possible to define storage options for system folders
* If The Bat! was already running, starting of a new copy of the program will activate the runnig instance and command-line parameters (mailto:<address>) will be passed to it.
+ Help file (Russian for the first time - English one will be available very soon)
(There are some other changes that are missed in this list, but it's
hard to recall them right now)
Version 1.00.90:
+ PGP Support - it's now possible to use the existing version of PGP program installed on your system to verify, sign, encrypt your messages
+ Saving drafts of outgoing messages into outbox
+ German & Dutch language interfaces
* If POP3 server doesn't support UIDL command to determine "freshness" of message, checksums of message headers are used instead. A bit slower, but still useful
* Message text is now wrapped in built-in (not Rich Text) viewer
- Bugs with retrieving messages from some POP3 servers caused improper logon
- Hanging up when a connection is broken
- many other minor (almost cosmetical) bugs
Version 1.00.82:
+ MD-5 POP authorization (APOP command)
+ Parking messages - it's now possible to mark messages so they will not be deleted on Purging/Emptying/Deleting/Moving commands
+ It's now possible to minimize main window into System Tray
+ Pop-up menus added for right mouse click on View/Edit message window
+ Replied flad for messages
- Several bugs with language support
- Bugs with storing address book data
- Fixed auto-justifying in editor
- Reply/Forward of several messages cause endless loop
- Some other minor bugs fixed
Version 1.00.82:
- Bug with receiving mail fixed (finally - it was appearing only Windows NT)
+ Comprehensive Mail Dispatcher
+ Send mail from all accounts
+ Possibility to view the original message text when replying
+ Filters for read and replied messages
+ Reading Confirmation option - it's compatible with Pegasus Mail. There are several actions available for working with confirmation receipt messages
+ Purging and compressing of folders on Exit is now working
* Message IDs are now stored (if POP server supports UIDL command, otherwise LAST command is used and, if it's not supported - old method with Lastread is still working) - this gives the possibility to keep messages on server for a particular period of time and then delete them
* New look-and-feel of message composer window - input grid is used instead of traditional separate input boxes
* Attached files are now deleted from attachment directory if the appropriate option is set
* Simplified the way of forwarding
Version 1.00.70:
+ Account logging.
+ Is is now possible to specify ports for SMTP and POP services
+ Facility to show message header in the message autoview panel
+ Reply to All function
+ Last folder that was active before the program's shutdown is now set active at the next startup.
* Account settings dialogue has been changed (we hope it's a bit nicer now)
* Reply-To field by default is set to originator of the message being forwarded
* When an account is just opened, it moves to the list's top to show maximum amount of its folders.
- Some problems with screen modes where large fonts are used.
- Problems with proper positioning of a new editor/message view window.
