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| Developer(s) | RITLabs |
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| Stable release | 5.0.32 (January 9, 2012) [±] |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Type | E-mail client |
| License | Shareware |
| Website | http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/ |
The Bat! is a shareware e-mail client for the Microsoft Windows operating system, developed by RITLabs, a company based in Chişinău, Moldova.
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[edit] History
- 1.0 Beta, the first public version, was released in March 1997. It supported folders, filtering, viewing HTML e-mail without the need to have Internet Explorer installed, and international character sets. It also had a special feature named Mail Ticker.
- 1.00 Build 1310, the first stable version, came to public in March 1998.
- 1.32 introduced the Robin layout engine[1][2] on 27 April 2000. Versions up to 1.31 had used the THtmlViewer engine by David Baldwin.
- Version 2.0 (September 2003) introduced IMAP support, a basic HTML editor, Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus Plug-ins and a Scheduler, and could import messages from Microsoft Office Outlook and Outlook Express
- Version 3.0 (September 2004) introduced customizable User Interface, virtual folders, Mail Chat, Biometric authentication and support of MAPI protocol to connect to Microsoft Exchange Servers.
- Version 3.95 (December 2006) supports IPv6.
- Version 4.0 (February 2008) has Address History option, Favorite Folders sets and URL manager for HTML images retrieval. The Bat!'s text editor supports Unicode, internal image viewer supports rotate, advanced resize and zoom algorithms and full screen mode.
- Version 4.1 (December 2008) adds HTML templates, support for SOCKS proxy, and a new mail database format that allows for an unlimited volume of mail.
- Version 4.2 (June 2009) adds postponed sending.
- Version 5.0 (April 2011) improves support for IMAP protocol, hints, folder information html templates, image downloader, odd/even row contrast.
[edit] Market position
In the marketplace it competes with Eudora, Pegasus Mail and several browser-integrated e-mail clients as a less virus-prone replacement[3] for Microsoft Outlook Express. It is well respected within the computer industry,[4][5] and has won a number of awards.[6] The user interface of The Bat! has a high level of available customization. It has powerful message filtering capabilities.[7] It also supports templates, allowing three different levels of template creation. This along with macros allows for extensive automation of almost every aspect of mailing.[8]
[edit] Forged headers
A number of Internet service providers,[9] sites and organizations[10] claim that The Bat! is a spamming tool and, on that basis, block messages containing "The Bat!" in the X-Mailer header. Many spam messages do have the X-Mailer header field set to The Bat!, but this is because it is one of the default settings in the Advanced Mass Sender program, which is frequently used for sending spam mail.[9] This forces legitimate users to configure The Bat! not to include the X-Mailer field in the messages that they send.
Programs such as SpamAssassin can detect many instances of forged "X-Mailer: The Bat!" headers by looking at other parts of the message, for example HTML body, message-id, charset and boundary information.[11]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "RITLabs says that The Bat! users have nothing to be afraid of". RITLabs. 2006-09-25. http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/news_detail.php?ID=1563&sphrase_id=21309.
- ^ "US Defence Department against Microsoft Outlook". RITLabs. 2006-12-30. http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/news_detail.php?ID=1779&sphrase_id=21309.
- ^ Gaskin, James. Broadband Bible. Wiley. pp. 144. ISBN 0-7645-6951-1.
- ^ Kraynak, Joe. Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks. pp. 133. ISBN 0-7645-7474-4.
- ^ Winder, Davey (April 2006). "Product Reviews: The Bat! 3.6 Professional". PC Pro Magazine, Issue 138. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/83704/the-bat-36-professional.html.
- ^ "Awards won by The Bat!". Ritlabs. http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/prizes.php.
- ^ Randall, Neil (November 2005). PC Magazine Windows XP Solutions (2nd Edition ed.). Wiley. pp. 163. ISBN 0-471-74752-1.
- ^ "The Bat! Editor's review". CNET. http://www.download.com/The-Bat-Professional-Edition-/3003-2367_4-10395729.html?tag=tab_rev.
- ^ a b NotOptedIn (2002-07-30). "My error post about The Bat!". news.admin.net-abuse.email. (Web link). Retrieved 2011-02-14.
- ^ Spam Guy (2006-06-08). "Use of "X-mailer: The Bat!" in spam". alt.spam. (Web link). Retrieved 2007-01-26.
- ^ rules to detect forged The Bat! messages
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