The Bat! is one of the most powerful and versatile email clients. It is full of features and functions, and here are tips, tricks and howtos to help you use them best.
The Bat! makes it particularly easy to send an email to one of your "favourite" contacts. Here's how to make any contact a favorite in The Bat!.
Send blind carbon copies (to recipients who will not be listed as receivers in the email) of your messages with The Bat!.
Add some extra spice to your emails by making The Bat! insert custom X-headers.
Make sure you always know which page to read next when you print emails with The Bat!.
Don't be so picky about your recipients. Enter them quickly in The Bat! instead.
Get control of The Bat!'s tips of the day by writing your own.
Stop waiting for mail by preventing The Bat! from fetching huge messages (that take forever to download) automatically.
Prepare for email disaster by making a backup copy of all your data. With The Bat!, that's really easy.
Change your identity on the fly. Here's how to quickly change the account used to send a message in The Bat!.
Not happy with the default font used by The Bat!? Here's how to write emails in The Bat! using your favorite font.
Importance is just one click away. Here's a quick way to change the importance level of a message you send in The Bat!.
Get all my new mail, and get it fast! Here's how to make The Bat! fetch new mail in all your accounts quickly.
Check one of the fastest ways to see if you've got new mail waiting in The Bat!: initiating a mail check from the system tray.
Let The Bat! do for you automatically what you'd do anyway: look if new messages have come in.
Have The Bat! place all attachments from incoming messages in a special directory so you can deal with them instantly.
Discover the shortest distance between anywhere and composing a new email message in The Bat!.
Get easy access to "new message" in The Bat! from the system tray.
The fastest way to open a new message window in The Bat! is with a keyboard shortcut.
Don't waste disk space for deleted messages. Here's how to make The Bat! reclaim this wasted space.
Save time and money, and see The Bat! work for you. It can connect when it needs an internet connection, and hang up automatically when it's done, too.
The easiest way to create a filter in The Bat! is by taking an existing message as an example.
In order to be able to electronically sign outgoing messages and receive encrypted email, you need an OpenPGP key pair. Here's how to create your personal key in The Bat! easily.
Make forwards look exactly the way you want them to by default in The Bat!.
Make The Bat! even faster and easier to use by having it respond to your favorite keyboard shortcuts for your favorite commands.
Find Mr. Right easily in The Bat! by going through the list of auto-complete recipients quickly.
My server is my backup — for some days. Here's how to make The Bat! keep mail on the server for a few days after downloading it.
Stop The Bat! from announcing all the spam you get and make it display only the most important messages in its MailTicker.
Check all accounts for new mail -- all but some. Here's how to specify the accounts that you want to be excluded from "check all" commands in The Bat!.
Why you want certain filters to be on top of others — find out what filter order means and does, and how you can make use of it in The Bat!.
If you access your Yahoo! Mail account with The Bat!, make sure spam is automatically moved to a special 'Junk Mail' folder.
Share an email with others in The Bat! and make sure they get the full original message.
Distribute an email message to others easily by forwarding it with The Bat!.
Hi, my name is Mail Dispatcher. I'm a bit shy... but maybe you like one or the other of my features. I can announce new mail in The Bat! in a very useful way, for example.
I have more trouble handling my multiple personalities than The Bat! has managing my seventy-seven email accounts.
Would you like to access your email not only from the computer at home or work but also remotely from any place and computer with an internet connection?
Let no misspelled words escape The Bat! by having its spell checker check your messages as you type them.
Limit the display of a mailbox in The Bat! to messages from a certain sender.
Using The Bat!'s great message editor's formatting power, you can use perfectly justified text in your emails easily.
Do you wish, sometimes, you could unsend an email? In The Bat!, you can for a while, if you make it hold back final delivery after you click "Send".
Have new mail announced to you in a legible way in The Bat!'s Mail Ticker.
Give messages and message lists their own windows. Here's how to open a folder in a separate window in The Bat!.
Compose an email now and have The Bat! automatically deliver it later, at whichever date and time you choose. Great for birthdays, anniversaries and holidays, for example.
Read messages in logical rather than chronological order by having The Bat! sort them by thread.
Make The Bat! even more secure by disabling automatic display of possibly malicious HTML content.
Instead of deleting all mail immediately after downloading it, make The Bat! keep copies on the server — maybe you need them later.
Get rid of dupes easily with The Bat!, which can scan any folder for duplicate messages and eliminate them automatically.
Message parking in The Bat! is not your car's parking (but it is close). Find out what parking a message means in The Bat! and how to use it to your advantage.
Special colors for special messages. Here's how to mark messages visually in The Bat! to categorize them.
Do you want to avoid downloading emails you don't want to read (or receive)? Here's how you can make The Bat! launch its nifty Message Dispatcher automatically so you can delete mail right at the server easily.
Don't have the time to reply to an email immediately, but don't want to forget it altogether either? The Bat! can help, reminding you about a message later.
Discover the most rapid reading technique in The Bat!, which lets you mark all messages in a folder as being read with a single keyboard shortcut.
The Bat! sleeps in the tray, but it is there when you need it. Here's how to minimize The Bat! to your Windows system tray.
Make up The Bat! by re-arranging folders freely.
Make sure your folders in The Bat! are in tip-top shape by performing essential maintenance tasks routinely (and easily).
Show me (part of) your body! Find out how to preview messages right at the server with the Message Dispatcher in The Bat!.
Create a paper trail of your email conversations with The Bat!, and take them with you everywhere.
Have The Bat! keep your "Trash" folder at a reasonable size by removing very old messages automatically.
Display messages page by page in The Bat! and read them comfortably with the largest key on your keyboard.
Start your reply from scratch in The Bat!.
Recover email messages, contacts and other data from your backup in The Bat!.
Don't lose work when Windows hangs, and The Bat! does with it.
Type what you are looking for, and The Bat! will take you there. Discover a smart and swift way to search a mailbox in The Bat!.
Give me all messages pertaining to that subject, and quickly! The Bat! makes searching for a subject particularly easy.
If typing (and before that: remembering) email addresses is not one of your favorite activities, The Bat! can help you address messages to your most frequent contacts in a fast and easy manner.
Yellow is for to-do, blue is for the boss' mail, but red and bold is for you. Here's how to set up color labels in The Bat!.
The Bat! has no signatures, it has something better, and here's how to use it.
Don't send mailto messages from a wrong account in The Bat!.
Ready, set, spot on the Jimmy folder. Learn how to start The Bat! in a specific folder automatically.
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Have you accidentally deleted a message you wanted to keep? Do you think you might have accidentally deleted such a message? Here's how to see the deleted emails in a folder (in an IMAP account in particular) in The Bat!, and how to undelete them.
Make printouts from emails look exactly the way you want them to with The Bat!.
Make replies to mail in a certain folder use a special sender name and address by default in The Bat!.
Make signatures stand out, or let them disappear almost in the emails you read with The Bat!.
Make use of an advanced text editing technique while writing emails in The Bat!.
Let The Bat! check for new messages on startup and exit immediately if there aren't any.
"Override Existing Filters" sounds grim, but is a useful option for filters in The Bat! nevertheless (and it won't destroy anything).
