I have no idea how i lived without mailplane (drag & drop attachments, copy and paste images, growl notifcations) and also have no idea how i'd live without the data rapportive brings to the party.
I don't really understand; what's so special about Mailplane? It's just an email client right? What can it do that Mail.app or Outlook hooked up to your gmail account can't?<p>I must be missing something.
This may sound like heresy but I always find gmail search -- when I'm looking for something in the subject or sender -- to be a bit slow compared to search in a local mail tool like Thunderbird or Evolution or Mail.app.<p>If I need to search entire message bodies gmail is of course much faster, but often sender/subject search is all I need.