“Mail in Mac OS X has progressively grown from the simple mail client Apple included with the first builds of Mac OS X into one of the best email solutions for the Mac, and certainly the most popular. As the default app for email on the Mac, Mail gets lots of feature requests and lots of complaints when things don’t work as expected. For example, Mail 2.0 in Tiger drew gasps from its use of nonstandard toolbar icons that grouped functions together in bubbles. Apple has significantly updated Mail for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, introducing support for Notes, To Do reminders, RSS feeds, Data Detectors, and HTML Statonery,” Prince McLean reports for AppleInsider.
McLean covers:
• Mail’s Origins
• The Macintosh Office
• Steve Jobs’ NeXTMail
• Microsoft’s Exchange and Lotus Notes
• Apple’s PowerTalk and CyberDog
• NeXTMail at Apple
• Mail in Mac OS X
• Tiger Mail 2.0
• Leopard’s New Mail
• To Do Reminders
• Apple Data Detectors
• Take Notes
• RSS Feed Reader
• New Mail Source List
Full extensive article, with screenshots, here.