Direct The Bat! Professional Edition version 9.2.1 Repack + The Bat! Voyager version 9.18.1 Portable -=TeamOS=-

Mirkec · Jul 2, 2020

Review
The Bat! is a secure desktop email client for Windows, built to protect user correspondence against third-parties. The client protects user information through multiple encryption streams, with the option to keep all information encrypted on its disk and to protect emails during communication using end-to-end encryption (E2EE). The Bat! can work without global email providers that keep user messages in the cloud, where they can be stolen. The Bat! saves user emails on a computer to make them private. The application blocks malicious code and tracking pixels that spread via email.

The Bat! email program can process and store an unlimited number of messages. It has no restriction on the number of email accounts accessible via IMAP, POP, MAPI protocols. The Bat! is a perfect multiple email account manager that allows users to access all its email accounts in one place quickly. The Bat! is a safe, robust, and reliable mail application. It handles extensive message bases quickly and with a small memory footprint.

The MailTicker™ is, without doubt, one of the most powerful features of The Bat!. The MailTicker™ adds a visual indicator to user desktop similar to those stock exchange banners user may know from specific TV news channels. It shows unread messages, as defined by a set of simple options a user can choose from. It makes The Bat! the best mail app for Windows.

The Bat! Voyager is a portable email client software which user can launch from any USB or portable media on any computer running Microsoft Windows. The Bat! Voyager lets users safely send and receive messages, store personal user templates, and protects user email data from viruses and malware. With the ability to run from a USB-drive, or an IDE converter, The Bat! Voyager harnesses the security features of The Bat! and allows users to take them anywhere.

The Bat! Voyager utilizes message base encryption and is password-protected to keep user data private. No information is left on the computer user are using. Even if a user's flash drive is lost or stolen - the privacy of its data is guaranteed. To ensure all loss is a cheap memory drive, user emails and data are encrypted. If user information is still backed-up on the computer restoring the data to a new flash drive will take just a few minutes.

PGP, GnuPG, and S/MIME Support;
Powerful Filtering System;
Internal HTML Viewer - Configurable Image Retrieval;
The Bat!'s Address Book;
Safe Handling of Attached Files;
Handy Templates;
Selective Message Download;
RSS Feed Subscriptions;
Write and send emails from any workstation;
Search through the entire message base anywhere, anytime;
Keep address data ever at hand;
Preserve templates;
Protect user's mail archive and address books with powerful encryption;
Reach user mail archive at any time;
Safeguard user mail from viruses, worms, and other malicious software;
And much more.

What is new in version 9.2.1 (Released on July 01, 2020):
Major improvements:

Toolbars library is reverted to Toolbar 2000 components (GUI became much faster);
HTML rendering engine is set to solely Chromium (CEF library v83.3).

New features:

Offline Mode (menu item "Options\Work Offline") and detection of the absence of the Internet connection to avoid useless mailbox checking attempts;
Automatically generated colors are used for different email addresses in the Summary View.

Improvements:

Message List and Folder Tree Tabs can be handled using the mouse wheel (scrolling, pressing and tilting);
Changes in message's memo are automatically saved;
By default the newly created IMAP folders are added to the Mail Ticker's watch list;
Messages with the empty "To:" fields are saved as draft instead of trying to send them;
Changes in the appearance of the items in the message list and account/folder tree view;
Added the option for the "old style" tree views and row density under "Options\Preferences\Other options";
Loading of the external media for HTML messages (to be extended) can be configured under the menu "Options\Preferences\Viewer/Editor\HTML Viewer";
(#0002014) Better automatic recognition of URLs with matching brackets;
(#0002017) The "Select/Deselect" buttons for folders have been reorganized in the Message Finder (F7) window;
Changes in the program's default layout for the first time run.

Fixes:

Applying the left alignment by Alt+L in the MicroEd plain text editor called out the system's warning sound;
The Escape key did not close the Address Book window;
Quick Search was not activated by typing in the message list;
HTML viewer popup menu was improperly positioned on high DPI;
SmartSpace Reading is now working in any kind of text viewer;
(#0001761) The issue which caused cascading error messages when replying to a message still being downloaded has been resolved;
(#0001832) Inactive Internal PGP implementation was displayed in the list of available PGP engines;
(#0001837) An Access Violation error message appeared in the Address History after deselecting folders for scanning;
(#0001844) On the profile layout settings page the text was not displayed until a profile was manually selected;
(#0001934) Buttons on the preview pane's header were too wide;
(#0001961) Memo Autoview visibility is now maintained between sessions;
(#0001967) Memo editor does not close when repeatedly pressing Shift+Ctrl+I;
(#0002006) Message list tabs were not restored from Backup;
(#0002021) Icons of the program's additional windows were not displayed;
(#0002025) Unnecessarily deep nesting for the "Format\...\" color settings in the message editor has been eliminated;
OAuth 2.0 authentication was not working for Mail.Ru;
No default address book was created on the first start of the program;
Superfluous empty spaces in the main window of the program appeared after restoring the data from the Home directory;
Checkboxes on accounts' selection on restoring from Home folder were missing;
The window for "Create New Account" appeared in the background and wasn't noticeable to the user.

What is new in version 9.1.18 (Released on April 22, 2020):
New features

On TLS connections, The Bat! sends Signaling Cipher Suite Value (SCSV) "TLS_EMPTY_RENEGOTIATION_INFO_SCSV" cipher suite (described in RFC 5746) to indicate that it is not prone to insecure renegotiations (see section 3.3 of the RFC). Some servers did terminate the connection immediately when there were no SCSV in TLS "ClientHello" (as described in section 4.3 of the RFC). In such cases, The Bat! added the following message to the log file: "The server has closed the connection during TLS handshake."

Fixes

The Bat! did try to change associations from the Preferences dialog even if the user changed nothing in this configuration;
The Bat! didn't start if Windows interface language was set to Korean;
(#0001976) Shortcuts in message list tabs do not work;
(#0001982) Adding a shortcut in the customizer leads to an Access Violation error;
(#0001991) Toolbar customization was not saved in the message list window (the window of an opened email message);
(#0001996) Hidden Quick Search by customization let it reappear as a field in the m a i l header pane.

What is new in version 9.1.16 (Released on April 18, 2020):
New features:

The /TLS_DISABLE_ECDSA command line parameter to disable the cipher suites with Elliptic Curve DSA server certificates;
The Bat! QR Code generator now includes an ECI block to indicate that the text has UTF-8 encoding for those texts that could not be encoded with Kanji or ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) encoding, for example, Greek or Cyrillic characters separated by spaces or Unicode emoji characters.

Improvements:

In an ECDSA signature, if a hash function had more substantial digest length (in bits) than the field size (which is not a good practice), The Bat! treated these signatures as invalid. It might lead to invalid ECC certificates, e.g., signed by the "sha512ECDSA" algorithm. It might also lead to the following error: "TLS protocol error: Internal error BuildClientKeyExchange." For more information, see section 6.4 of FIPS.186-4 "ECDSA Digital Signature Generation and Verification": it is recommended that the security strength associated with the bit length of n and the security strength of the hash function be the same unless an agreement has been made between participating entities to use a more robust hash function. When the length of the output of the hash function is greater than the bit length of n, then the leftmost n bits of the hash function output block shall be used in any calculation using the hash function output during the generation or verification of a digital signature. A hash function that provides a lower security strength than the security strength associated with the bit length of n ordinarily should not be used since this would reduce the security strength of the digital signature process to a level no higher than that provided by the hash function
A certificate used to sign a message may also have a "Content Commitment" (non-repudiation) key usage instead of the "Digital Signature";
When determining connection settings (host, port, encryption type) to an unknown mail server, TLS connection settings didn't take priority over plain text ones;
File type associations (default programs) can no longer be changed from an application since Windows 8 or later. So, if The Bat! is running under Windows 8 or Windows 10, the relevant elements are not shown in the "Applications" tab. Besides that, the dialog to associate file types no longer appears when The Bat! starts.

Fixes:

The Bat! did require "Key Encipherment" or "Key Agreement" in the "Key Usage" certificate attribute for TLS even if the certificate was only used to sign ephemeral keys to provide perfect forward secrecy. If a server only supports perfect forward secrecy TLS cipher suites, the certificate used by this server may have no "Key Encipherment" or "Key Agreement" in the "Key Usage" attribute. As a result, the following error is fixed with Google (GMail) servers: "TLS handshake failure. Invalid server certificate (The certificate cannot be used for this purpose)";
The Bat! QR Code generator didn't support Kanji character set;
(#0001785) Ctrl+mouse wheel doesn't zoom in/out in the "plain text" editor and "Windows editor";
(#0001942) Search in QuickTemplates causes error on closing the window;
(#0001972) The message popup menu does not contain the option "Test filters";
Added showing of secondary shortcuts (if a popup or menu item has two shortcuts);
Fixed toolbar position after loading;
Fixed order of items in popup menus;
Added possibility to put toolbars to the right of the main menu;
Fixed deletion of customized sub-menus (tags, colors, etc.);
Fixed image insert from Browsers into HTML editors;
Fixed an error when selecting some images in toolbar customization;
The default mail server configuration data was missing in The Bat! in all versions released after June 09, 2019;
Fixed issues with menu images on 175% DPI;
S/MIME did not work since v9.1.10;
The Bat! did try to change associations from the Preferences dialog even if the user changed nothing in this configuration.

What is new in version 9.1.10 (Released on April 08, 2020):
New features:

The Bat! QR Code generator now includes an ECI block to indicate that the text has UTF-8 encoding for those texts that could not be encoded with Kanji or ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) encoding, for example, Greek or Cyrillic characters separated by spaces or Unicode emoji characters.

Fixes:

The Bat! did require "Key Encipherment" or "Key Agreement" in the "Key Usage" certificate attribute for TLS even if the certificate was only used to sign ephemeral keys to provide perfect forward secrecy. If a server only supports perfect forward secrecy TLS cipher suites, the certificate used by this server may have no "Key Encipherment" or "Key Agreement" in the "Key Usage" attribute;
The Bat! QR Code generator did not support Kanji character set;
(#0001785) Ctrl+mouse wheel does not zoom in/out in the "plain text" editor and "Windows editor";
(#0001972) The message popup menu does not contain the option "Test filters";
Added showing of secondary shortcuts (if a popup or menu item has two shortcuts);
Fixed toolbar position after loading;
Fixed order of items in popup menus;
Added possibility to put toolbars to the right of the main menu;
Fixed deletion of customized sub-menus (tags, colors, etc.)

What is new in version 9.1 (Released on March 02, 2020):

The official website does not provide any information about this release at the moment.

System requirements:
OS: Microsoft Windows® XP, Windows® Vista, Windows® 7, Windows® 8, Windows® 8.1, Windows® 10.
There are no minimum requirements for memory size or CPU speed;
It runs on any Windows PC desktop and tablet platform.

Install notes:
1. Run the executable file or command-line interpreter program for silent installation;
2. Enjoy!

Repack features:

Combined installation of the repack and portable in one distribution package (PortableApps format version);
The choice of bit capacity is automatic, but the ability to force x86 version installation is added on x64 system (for sharing MS Outlook x86);
Unpacking the portable version can also be limited to x86 only;
Does not require registration (Medicines by addhaloka applied already);
Removed ads, adware modules and other "garbage" inherent in IObit programs;
Optional IObit Uninstaller Service Installation;
Optional integration of the program into the context menu of the Explorer;
Optional integration into Windows Control Panel;
Multilingual user interface (including Russian);
Picks up the custom Main.ini settings file (if located next to the installer).

Screenshots:

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File: The.Bat.Professional.v9.2.1.exe