Dizzy after banging my head on the desk, trying to exorcise the evil demon of John Gruber from my WordPress installation and force Live Comment Preview to work, I present the rest of the day’s posts as quick links:

• Rui Carmo posts on how to read your .Mac mail with a Sony Ericsson K750i phone using its in-built IMAP support.
• Pierre Igot‘s eagle eye finds three things (that’s one , two , three ) wrong with the way that Mail.app and iPhoto work together to email photos.
• Following the posting here of the hunt for people to help Apple’s Mail team with the next version of Mail.app, Andrew Brehaut posts on the frustrations of applying for jobs with Apple .
• The Mail.app plugin Mail Attachments Iconizer has been updated as a universal binary .
• Jason Clarke posts a useful collection of links on “email triage” or strategies to stay on top of your inbox. See also Itzy Sabo’s site, Email Overload which is devoted to this topic.

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One of the really nice things about Mail.app is the way it works closely with other iApps like iCal, Address Book and iPhoto. But Mail doesn’t have the stranglehold on integration.

A while ago, I posted about iPhoto Mailer Patcher, a hack for iPhoto that allows you to set Claris Emailer, GyazMail, Mailsmith, Outlook Express, PowerMail or QuickMail Pro as the default email client to which iPhoto sends resized images for you to email.

ZappTek provides hacks to help other email clients send iCal notifications. There are patches for Entourage, Eudora, Mailsmith, PowerMail and GyazMail.

Because it lacks AppleScript support, Thunderbird misses out on both counts.

Think carefully though. The developer warns that you will need to reinstall iCal in order to undo the installer’s modifications, if you change your mind later.mail.app, apple mail, iphoto, ical, notification, GyazMail, Mailsmith, PowerMail, Eudora, Thunderbird

Before Christmas, I blogged about iPhoto Mailer Patcher. It was a time to share the love.

iPhoto Mailer Patcher is an AppleScript-based utility for iPhoto that allows you to set Claris Emailer, GyazMail, Mailsmith, Outlook Express, PowerMail or QuickMail Pro as the default email client to which iPhoto sends resized images for you to email.

By default, iPhoto only supports Eudora, Mail.app, Entourage and AOL.

But the Patcher only works with iPhoto 4. To get it work with iPhoto 5 you will need to follow the instructions left by the developer Simon Jacquier in the comments to the original post.

The instructions and some screenshots follow the jump.

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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.