As everyone knows, one of the great things about Mail.app is the slick way that it integrates with other OS X apps.

Find the iPhoto picture you want to email, click on the Mail button, and – hey presto – there it is, nicely formatted in a new email and ready to go.

In the spirit of Christmas cheer, here’s an iPhoto hack that gives the same joy to others. iPhoto Mailer Patcher adds the same “optimise and email a picture” support for Claris Emailer, GyazMail, Mailsmith, Outlook Express, PowerMail and QuickMail Pro.

The Mozilla stable, including Thunderbird, miss out because they are not “AppleScriptable” enough for iPhoto to work with them.

iPhoto Mailer Patcher is freeware, comes in various flavours depending on your iPhoto version and is available from the developer’s web site.

Maybe you know some poor soul whose life would be better for finding out about it.

FastMailBase, a stand-alone app for the archiving and searching of email messages, has been updated.

The new version adds a Claris Emailer plugin, fixes issues with IMAP account mailboxes extraction and display in the Apple Mail plugin and includes numerous bugfixes.

Its price has been temporarily reduced to USD 67 until 20 November and it’s available from the developer’s web site.