The Bat! is one of the most powerful and versatile email clients available for Windows, and it successfully combines a good security record with ease of use. The Bat! mail client has a lot of vital benefits and useful features that make your email experience simple and convenient. The Bat! allows you to work with unlimited number of the mailboxes, has powerful sorting filters, fully customizable message templates, Mail Dispatcher and many more other features.

Unlike other email applications, The Bat! does not start scripts automatically. The Bat! benefits of its own HTML viewing mechanism - Robin HTML Viewer, as well as of its own image viewing module. These mechanisms protect you from viruses aimed at operating system mechanisms vulnerability. The pro version is an email client that offers secure authentication on POP3/SMTP servers using hardware tokens and transparent, on-the-fly encryption of the email message base, address books and configuration files. This makes the sensitive data stored on your mobile and desktop computers really secure.

The internal PGP implementation, based on the award-winning OpenSSL lets you encrypt messages and sign them with digital signatures. Handy manager for digital keys included. Free plug-ins for PGP v5.5, v6.0.2, 6.5, v7.x & v8.x GnuPG is also supported. The Bat! also supports S/MIME via Internal Implementation or Microsoft CryptoAPI. The Bat! is the first e-mail client to support S/MIME compressed data. The Bat! support Secure Socket Layer (SSL) v3.1 / Transport Layer Security (TLS) v1.0 with AES algorithm.

What's New

Improvements

  • Google and Outlook Calendar synchronization function smoother and do not require extra OAUTH tokens
  • CEF v117
  • Workaround for the "file is locked" error while loading template images from a file
  • Add /CalendarSyncLogEvents and /CalendarSyncLogCalendars parameters for logging calendar and event lists sync

Fixes

  • GnuPG signature with empty password was losing first line of the input
  • In the 64-bit version, PGP/MIME option was not set properly
  • PGP options were not used in mass mailing
  • Notification of missed events was not working for non-recurrent events
  • Tables from the original email were not properly displayed in the reply
  • Some attachment files got lost when multiple forward to a single recipient was executed
  • Attachments that had been added via the drop-down menu of the "Attach a file" icon were not displayed on the recipients' end
  • Extra empty lines appeared in the Quick Reply if the template had been set to the HTML format
  • An attachment's contents had been put into the message body in case the message was digitally signed
  • Text pasted into PureHTML editor from an Excel spreadsheet could be pasted not as a table
  • Highlight color had darker background in all themes
  • Time zone could be not set for use when importing from an .ICS file
  • Template Preview did not switch between HTML/Plain Text outputs
  • Embedded images were not shown in the Template Preview
  • Some external images were not displayed upon download
  • Attachment clip was mistakenly shown for messages with inline images and hidden after message was loaded
  • Images from Quick Templates could not be seen in Gmail