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Mail has long become our daily visit, essential application; Whether it's for opening incoming messages or reading fresh RSS Feeds. Many have used Mail plugins to optimize their performance, how about you?

Here are some of the Mail tips and tricks that you may want to know.

1. 10 Nifty Mail Tricks that You Definitely Want to Know
2. Change Mail Alert Sound
3. Change Flag Icon of Mail
4. Mail Tips: Marking Messages
5. Mailbox Archives

You can expect to see several great plugins upon reading this article. Feel like to continue reading?

GrowlMail

Growl lets your Apple Mail posts Growl notification when you received new mail.

Letterbox

Adapting to your widescreen display, you can install this plugin to change your Mail interface to 3-columns layout (as opposed to default 2-columns).

WideMail

This Mail plugin has similar functionality to Letterbox, but with more customizable options, such as adjusting row padding, alternating row color or setting line separator style.

Flagit! US$8

Flagit! gives you the ability to mark your messages with multi colored flags. Not only limited to that, you can also create your custom flags.

DockStar US$9.95

Customize your Mail icon and give different notifications for incoming mail by assigning different shapes and colors to your Mail inbox.

MiniMail US$9.00

MiniMail turns your inbox into mini-player, just like your iTunes, enabling you to skim through your mailboxes easier than you'd ever imagine.

MailFollowUp

Adds new Follow Up feature to your Mail which allows you to compose quoted version of the original message while keeping the To, Cc and Bcc addresses the same as the original message.

RelatedMail

Plugin for your Apple Mail that shows messages related to the currently viewed message. The relation can be either by date, by score or by subject.

Mail Attachment Iconizer US$14.99

Allowing you to display attachment as icon instead of Mail default behavior to display the whole content of attachment.

Attachment Scanner

Attachment Scanner helps you scan for attachment on your composed mail. It will prompt you of missing attachment, reminding you to attach the items.

Several more plugins out there that probably you will be interested in:

1. Mail.Appetizer Mail Notification
2. Serial Mail Sending Message to Group of People in Address Book
3. Subjectivity Prevent Against Accidentally Sending Mail without Subject
4. Mailboxer Arrange your Mail into Mailboxes by Referring to Address Book's Contacts
5. Mail Unread Menu Display Counts of Unread Message on Menu Bar