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- The Bat!
- Copyright (C) 1997-98 RIT Research Labs.
- Version 1.00 is now available at
- http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/
-
- The Bat! is an Internet e-mail client working under Windows 95 and NT.
-
-
- What's new in The Bat! 1.00 Build 1334 [ Legend: ]
- [ + Added feature ]
- [ * Improved/changed feature ]
- [ - Bug fixed (we hope) ]
-
-
- - Some grammatic fixes of russian resource.
-
- - Dropping from address menu an address placed the text to the first
- editor window, not to the currrent 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 menues.
-
- - Exiting TheBat! after printing a message caused traps.
-
- - Fixed some cosmetic changes of Build 1332-1333 with transfer progress
- indicator and language changings.
-
- - "Nothing to send" error box doesn't apper when serving remote mail-boxes.
-
- - Temporary files are deleting instantly, not on exit.
-
- * Added ISO-8859-5 charset.
-
-
- ---- History of changes in The Bat! --------------------------------------
-
- 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!" dialog 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 dialog. 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 thad didn't contain a
- space characted 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 absense 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 memorize after setup.
- * Improved address book search. Speed has been significally increased.
-
-
- Version 1.00 Build 1326
-
- - Fixed the on-exit trap.
- - Maximized 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 memorizes 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
- - Some other minor bugs
-
-
-
- Version 1.00.95:
-
- + English help file.
- + Credits are shown in About dialogue
- + Account properties:
- Default delivery method
- Default attachment encoding
- + 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.
-
- Version 1.00.60:
-
- * Improved message storage
- + Fully new ideology of message sorting
- * Mail accounts are represented as a tree
- + Security options
- * Improved address management
-
- Version 1.00.20:
-
- - Some bugs with SMTP servers fixed
-
- Version 1.00.17:
-
- First Public Beta.
-