This week saw more tips than plug-ins and helpful apps. Still, I’ve added Snail Mail and addressbook2pine to the new Address Book section and George Sudarkoff’s “Announce Sender” AppleScript to the Added Functionality section.

The Hawk Wings Plug-in and Add-on List now contains 81 plug-ins, add-ons, AppleScripts and helpful apps for Mail.app users.

Over the past fortnight, the five most popular stories were:

• An interface hack too far? — Changing Apple Mail’s Interface icons.
• Switching from Thunderbird to Apple Mail — and vice versa.
• Getting Things Done in Apple Mail — Setting up Apple Mail for GTD.
• Change Apple Mail’s Dock icon — Instructions for changing Mail.app‘s stamp icon in the Dock.
• 139 different Apple Mail icons — Replacement icons for Apple Mail‘s red-tailed hawk.

Addressbook2pine is a freeware app that converts Address Book contacts into the tab delimited .addressbook format used by pine.

During the conversion Address Book’s fields are mapped into the pine addressbook as follows:

It can also convert the other way, importing contacts from pine’s addressbook into OS X’s Address Book.

The app’s preference pane contains a number of options that make the process more flexible. For example you can customize the way nicknames are handled or how email IDs are applied:

The app is freeware although the author accepts donations and is available from the developer’s web site.