Tips and Tricks

The auto-update feature first appeared in The Bat! v10 and now two types of versions are available for download – versions with and without the auto-update function. Let’s see the difference between these two types of versions.

The Bat! offers a great number of simple and useful features, and we bet you have never imagined some of them exist!

Suggestion list, a simple but extremely useful feature, is a real time saver for The Bat! users. We see the suggestion list when we enter first letters of the recipient. What is it formed from?

Message Dispatcher allows for looking at messages stored on the POP3 mail server without downloading them. It is useful for managing mail remotely, for example, leaving messages with attachments on the server until you get home, but still retrieving and reading the urgent emails while on a mobile connection.

Today’s article will remind you of a simple and useful feature, which helps saving time when managing emails. Quick Reply is a tool in The Bat! which allows creating and sending replies to correspondents without using the editor.

Image Download Manager is a tool in The Bat! that takes control over the external media download.  

Summary view has been available in The Bat! for years now and it has become the default view in the latest versions. We would like to remind of this feature and share some ideas of its customization.

No doubt Quick Templates is one of the most effective The Bat! tools in terms of saving time when managing correspondence. Today’s article is dedicated to this unique feature.

MailTicker is a visual indicator that displays information about unread messages. It displays the sender and the subject of the message by default.

The email client The Bat! offers the best tools for effective email management – this is what it is valued for by its users for more than 20 years. Quite often we just need to quickly find messages in the current message list. The Bat! developers have created a simple and handy tool for such cases, and namely the Quick Search.

What are email aliases? Essentially, aliases are alternative addresses that direct to the main email address inbox. Creating an alias also creates a matching sending identity, which lets you send messages from your main account using the email address matching that alias.

We all do appreciate The Bat! for its ability to manage an unlimited number of accounts and folders.  Most users deal with hundreds of folders every day so folder tabs would certainly help navigate quicker between them.

No doubt The Bat! users deal with a huge number of emails every day, and the sorting by message list tabs certainly helps speed up the search for messages in the long list. This article covers the most popular and simple ways of using this feature.

Do you know you can edit themes in The Bat!? There is no special theme customizer, but there are handy color groups which let you fine-tune any theme.

In case you need to move your email hosting to another provider or migrate email to another account, The Bat! offers you a quick and simple solution.

Since The Bat! v9.3 there is a possibility to change interface themes and set a dark theme as well.

This guide is written for the users whose license key works with The Bat! versions 3.x - 4.0.38, but does not work with the new versions starting with 4.1.

Everyone knows what the space bar is, but not everyone knows that it can jump from one unread message to the next unread message, across folders and accounts. 

The Bat!’s mechanism of redirecting messages is multifunctional and easy-to-use. In this article we’ll guide you through this mechanism and tell about some similar features of the program.

Starting with version 5, The Bat! can generate and send QR codes. Formats of QR codes can be: URLs, phone numbers, SMS, bookmarks, email addresses, email messages, business cards, geolocation data, WiFi access information and simple text without any attributes. If your mobile device has software that can receive and process these formats, the QR code will be decoded correspondingly.