The Bat! 12.2.0

The Bat! 12 is a popular email client that allows to work with unlimited number of the mailboxes. Furthermore, it has powerful sorting filters, fully customizable message templates, Mail Dispatcher and many more other features.

The main task of the program is to secure protection of the correspondence from data theft and monitoring by third parties.

The Bat! 12 is able to handle an unlimited number of e-mail accounts and to process and store an unlimited number of messages.

The program offers a system of automatic message filtering, easy system of templates, message editor with the spell checker. And many other useful features.

The Bat! 12 protects your information using different methods. It includes the encryption of the message base on the hard drive and e-mail traffic encryption.

This email client protects your data through multiple encryption streams. It also ensures your correspondence stays private.

Finally, it protects confidential data by working without Web interfaces and without using global email providers that keep your messages in the cloud. The Bat! is perfect for work or at home. It has no restriction on the number of email accounts or messages you can have, high security and built-in features like automatic filters, templates, a spell-checker and more,

The Bat Features:

• Strong Encryption
• Backup and restore
• PGP, GnuPG and S/MIME support
• The own Address Book
• Message Parking
• Internal HTML Viewer
• Image Download Manager for background retrieval of HTML images
• Selective download
• Antivirus interface
• Safe handling of attached files
• ASLR and DEP
• 64-bit version
• Electronic discovery protection
  • Easily import .mbox and other file formats from a variety of third party email clients.
  • Sort email messages based on addressee or issue with Sorting Office.
  • Quick and powerful search features allow for easy retrieval of archived messages.

Productivity Improvement:

• Smart Sorting Office
• Handy Message Templates
• Quick Templates
• Address Book features
• Address History
• Mail Synchronization
• Microsoft Exchange Connectivity
• Extended Support of National Codepages
• Convenient Message Dispatcher
• Multilanguage Interface
• Image Viewing
• Import Wizard
• IDN support
• RSS feed subscriptions

Changes in version 12.2 (2026-05-18):

New features

• Internal PGP engine (gpmInternal): full OpenPGP without GnuPG — Ed25519, ECDSA, ECDH, RSA, AES-256
• PGP key server support: HKP/HKPS and WKD (Web Key Directory) with auto-fetch on encrypt/verify
• PGP Subject protection (ProtectSubject) — encrypts Subject inside PGP/MIME and S/MIME messages
• Theme switching added to Options → Preferences (light/dark/auto/by time)
• Color groups: configurable background opacity and corner mark indicator
• Message Subject is now shown in the taskbar while composing
• Draft crypto state (sign/encrypt/engine/PGP-MIME) now persists via X-Bat-Draft-Security header; reopening a draft restores the user’s intent
• Sending a draft with pending crypto from the “Outbox” now prompts: perform crypto now, send as-is, or cancel
• PGP key properties dialog redesigned: HTML/CSS rendering, resizable form with size persistence, dark-theme aware
• Added backup file integrity verification to ensure created backup files are fully restorable

Improvements

• Improved Microsoft Word-like sticky font/size persistence when navigating adjacent to formatted text in the HTML editor
• 0002296: Added mouse wheel scrolling in the emoji picker
• Added full interface translation updates for Bulgarian, Finnish, Italian, and Serbian, fixing many missing translations across various menus

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with an invisible caret while typing in the HTML editor
• Fixed quote splitting in the HTML editor
• Fixed Ctrl+A not working in header fields
• Fixed an issue with mouse-based field selection in message headers
• Fixed an issue where adding spaces in Quick Reply (Conversation View) was not possible
• Fixed importing of MIME From headers and folder names with national characters from Outlook
• Fixed an issue with the Description field when importing calendar events

Changes in version 12.1 (2026-03-31):

New features

• Automatic spell checking and right-click suggestions in message editor’s Subject and other text header fields
• Manual spell check now checks header fields before the message body
• Option to check for beta releases alongside regular update checks (DNS TXT + version-info-beta.xml)
• Updater downloads translated “What’s New” changelog for the UI language and shows it in the update dialog
• Ctrl+right-click on address fields selects the address under the cursor

Improvements

• New component for message print preview
• Syntax highlighting for previews of attached text files (.ini, .md, .html, .xml) in Conversation View
• Improvements to the interface customization dialog (search and drag-and-drop support)
• MSI installer now removes the previous same-bitness installation before installing
• The active area around the close button for tabs in the account/folder tree and message list has been increased

Fixes

• Error messages appeared when previewing .xlsx files
• Icons in the “Options” menu in the Editor were not highlighted when active
• Certain strings in the Address History were truncated
• Incorrect initial display of iCalendar (.ics) file contents led to improper event import into the Calendar
• Message list tabs appeared smaller on 4K monitors
• Fixed popup menu placement in CEF-based views on high-DPI and multi-monitor setups
• Fixed text scaling in the Print Preview dialog
• Fixed truncated strings in Print Preview
• .mbox export/import did not preserve the received time
• National characters in the message body were displayed incorrectly after viewing attached files
• An Access Violation error message occurred when viewing a PDF attachment
• App exit could not be canceled when closing the app with an unsaved message
• Color groups could not be reset in IMAP accounts
• Compressed table lines were rendered incorrectly in PureHTML messages
• Calendar ICS description field was not imported correctly
• Wrong decoding of Cyrillic headers when imported from Outlook
• Improperly decoded folders’ names in Cyrillic when imported from Outlook 2019
• The red wavy underline indicating spelling errors flickered on and off after each key press in MicroEd
• The color palette did not scale properly and remained small at 4K resolution with 200% scaling
• Ctrl+F incorrectly opened two search panels in the Classic View

Homepage – https://www.ritlabs.com

The Bat! is certified for Windows 10.
There are no minimum requirements for memory size or CPU speed.
It runs on any Windows PC desktop and tablet platform.

Size: 214 MB

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