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. Software maintenance is one of the activities in software engineering, and is the process of enhancing and optimizing deployed software (software release), as well as remedying defects. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An operating system (OS) is a software program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems by Microsoft for use on personal computers, although versions of Windows designed for servers, embedded devices, and other platforms also exist. ... An e-mail client (or mail user agent [MUA]) is a computer program that is used to read and send e-mail. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... An e-mail client (or mail user agent [MUA]) is a computer program that is used to read and send e-mail. ... Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems by Microsoft for use on personal computers, although versions of Windows designed for servers, embedded devices, and other platforms also exist. ... An operating system (OS) is a software program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... An excerpt of HTML code with syntax highlighting In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages with hypertext and other information to be displayed in a web browser. ... Internet Explorer, abbreviated IE or MSIE, is a proprietary graphical web browser made by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. ... Microsoft Office Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. ... Microsoft Outlook Express is an e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows starting with Windows 95 OSR-2. ... The Internet Message Access Protocol (commonly known as IMAP, and previously called Interactive Mail Access Protocol) is an application layer Internet protocol used for accessing email on a remote server from a local client. ... A typical spam advertisement Spam by e-mail is one type of spamming that involves sending identical or nearly identical messages to thousands (or millions) of recipients. ... Anti-virus software consists of computer programs that attempt to identify, thwart and eliminate computer viruses and other malicious software (malware). ...

In the marketplace it competes with Eudora, Pegasus Mail and several browser-integrated e-mail clients as a less virus-prone replacement for Microsoft Outlook Express. It is well respected within the computer industry, and has won a number of awards. Some say its user interface is not very intuitive, but this may be overcome by the high level of available customization. It has extremely powerful message filtering capabilities. 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. Eudora is an e-mail client that was once used widely on the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh operating systems. ... Pegasus Mail is a free, standards-based electronic mail client developed by David Harris. ... In computer security, a computer virus is a self-replicating computer program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable code or documents. ... Microsoft Outlook Express is an e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows starting with Windows 95 OSR-2. ... A Lego RCX Computer is an example of an embedded computer used to control mechanical devices. ... The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ...

The Bat! is developed by RitLabs (Stefan Tanurkov), a company based in Chişinău, Moldova. County ChiÅŸinău Status Municipality Mayor Vasile URSU, since 2005 Area 635 km² Population (2004) 712218 Density 1114 inh/km² Geographical coordinates Founded in 1436 Dialing code +373 22 Web site http://www. ...

Many spam messages have the X-Mailer 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. A typical spam advertisement Spam by e-mail is one type of spamming that involves sending identical or nearly identical messages to thousands (or millions) of recipients. ...

The Bat! is distributed as shareware. Shareware is a marketing method for software, whereby a trial version is distributed in advance and without payment, as is common for proprietary software. ...

See also

• List of e-mail clients
• Comparison of email clients

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External link

• The Bat! homepage