The Bat!
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| Developer: | RitLabs |
| Latest release: | 3.85.03 / September 4, 2006 |
| OS: | Windows |
| Use: | E-mail client |
| License: | shareware |
| Website: | www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/ |
The Bat! is an e-mail client for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It supports folders, filtering, viewing HTML e-mail without the need to have Internet Explorer installed, and international character sets. It also has a special feature named Mail Ticker, and can import messages from Microsoft Office Outlook and Outlook Express. Version 2.0 introduced full IMAP support, a basic HTML editor, Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus Plug-ins and a Scheduler. Version 3.0 introduced customisable User Interface, Virtual Folders, Mail Chat, Biometric authentication and support of MAPI protocol to connect to Microsoft Exchange Servers.
In the marketplace it competes with Eudora, Pegasus Mail and several browser-integrated e-mail clients as a less virus-prone replacement [1] for Microsoft Outlook Express. It is well respected within the computer industry[2][3], and has won a number of awards[4]. The user interface of The Bat! is intuitive[5], with the high level of available customization. It has extremely powerful message filtering capabilities[6]. It also supports templates and in fact allows three different levels of template creation. This along with macros allows for extensive automation of almost every aspect of mailing [7].
The Bat! is developed by RitLabs (Stefan Tanurkov, Maxim Masiutin, Diman Pavlov, Valerye Bostan, Valera Hiora), a company based in Chişinău, Moldova.
The Bat! is distributed as shareware.
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[edit] Forged headers
A number of Internet service providers, sites and organisations are claiming that The Bat! is a spamming tool and, on that basis, are blocking messages containing "The Bat!" in an x-mailer header.
Many spam messages have the X-Mailer header field set to The Bat!, but this because it is one of the default settings in the Advanced Mass Sender program, which is frequently used for sending spam mail.
There may be about 30 messages with forged "X-Mailer: The Bat!" headers per 1000 spam messages. Some Internet service providers, being unaware of this, are setting traffic filters that block messages containing "X-Mailer: The Bat!". This forces legitimate users to configure The Bat! to not include X-Mailer field into the messages that they send.
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. Here is a link to a file containing the rules to detect forged The Bat! messages: http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/2.6x/dist/rules/20_ratware.cf
The text in this section is from SilverStones.com, used with permission.
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[edit] References
- ^ Gaskin, James. Broadband Bible. Wiley, 144. ISBN 0764569511.
- ^ Kraynak, Joe. Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks, 133. ISBN 0764574744.
- ^ Winder, Davey. "Product Reviews: The Bat! 3.6 Professional", PC Pro Magazine, Issue 138.
- ^ Awards won by The Bat!. Ritlabs.
- ^ Gennick, Jonathan (May 2003). The Bat! - O'Reilly Databases.
- ^ Randall, Neil (November 2005). PC Magazine Windows XP Solutions, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 163. ISBN 0471747521.
- ^ The Bat! Editor's review. CNET.
