FreeMacWare.com is running a competition . The idea is that you post a selection of your best five freeware apps linked back to the site and you are in the running for a USD 100 iTunes voucher.

I can’t bring myself to pimp links like that for FreeMacWare (or anyone else), but the idea itself is a good one.

So, here are the five best freeware extras for Mail.app:

1. Mail Scripts . The collection of scripts from Andreas Amann is top-notch. They offer the ability to add all the email addresses in selected emails to your Address Book, to archive messages, to change SMTP servers on the fly, to remove duplicate messages, schedule email delivery and much more.
2. Mail.appetizer. Handsome, in-your-face, instant and informative notification of arriving emails. Lovely.
3. Event Maker. The best freeware solution for integrating Mail and iCal. Give it a Quicksilver trigger or FastScript hotkey, and iCal events, to dos and all-day events are just a key stroke away.
4. FastScripts Lite. This limited version of FastScripts by Daniel Jalkut offers up to ten hotkeys for AppleScripts and other excellent options to make using scripts in Mail and elsewhere more efficient. Nice.
5. MailUnreadStatusBar. If you are into the kinds of productivity tips that Merlin Mann is talking about in his Inbox Zero series at the moment, you will love this little app.

   It is much more discreet than Mail.appetizer, listing and offering mailbox-specific access to new mail without flashing it up in your face and thus interrupting your attempts not to live in your Inbox.

Of course, the best things in life are not always free. For a list of the very best things for Mail.app — freeware, donation-ware or shareware — see the Top ten things every Mail.app user should have.

Tags: addons, Apple Mail, applescript, freeware, mail.app, plugins, scripts, top five

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