Here’s a nice story.
Michelle Lentz, a US technology writer, has recently switched from PC to Mac. She was tempted to stick with Entourage 
for her email–”I want the familiarity of the Microsoft products”.
But she was brave. She transferred all her email over and was delighted by discoveries like Mail.app’s rules-based ability to change the background colour of emails. (”I actually couldn’t do this in Outlook.”)
But what really turned her head around was the wealth of plugins that allow Mail.app users to tweak and extend the app to meet their needs:
…I used a bunch of plug-ins to make it a more useful productivity tool for me. I was not happy with the way the ToDos worked, plus I wasn’t overly thrilled with how I had to manually file things. I remembered that a lot of these things I had fixed in Outlook as well using plug-ins. I was thrilled to find tons of Mail.app plug-ins.
She found – and loves – MailTags, MsgFiler, Mail.appetizer (recently updated for Leopard), MenuCalendarClock and (briefly) Letterbox , a fair number of the plugins in the Hawk Wings Top Ten Plugins list.
And the end result?
I’ve made Mail just as productive, if not moreso, than how I was running Outlook. This I can live with.
I’ve 
10.5.1 is out! You can find it in Software Update and 
If you ever stop blogging for a bit due to an insane period in your Real Life, you will notice that eventually collections of interesting things begin to pile up in your inbox.
Sven-S. Porst has updated his 
Now, I have “persistent” searches for my boss, work colleagues, wife and buddies just a click away.
Mailboxer is a smart little utility that quickly creates a smart mailbox in Mail.app for each of the contacts in your Address Book.
Now I have a manageable number of smart mailboxes that I will use at least ten or fifteen times a day. That’s a lot of typing into Mail’s search field that I have saved myself.
Colin Devroe knows what he likes and doesn’t like about Mail.app, although he says that “I’m not as much of a power-user of Mail as I probably could be.”
