Half of a year has passed since I started working with Mac OS X and for half a year I have never tried to actually adapt myself to Mail.app. Thing that hit me at first sight was a lack of extensibility via add-ons so I switched it off right after I noticed “add-ons” is not there.
However, once my fiancee moved to Mac, she decided to exchange The Bat! for Mail.app. Although it took a while, export/import from The Bat! to Mail.app went pretty smoothly. Furthermore, on the way of the transfer I had to search for some extensions (e.g. to remove duplicate messages etc) so at this point I found that extensibility of Mail.app is indeed available. And it is available so widely that I have switched to Mail.app myself. And I am a happy Mail.app user now.
For those considering the move, here’s the incomplete list of available Mail.app extensions:
http://www.hawkwings.net/plugins.htm
As for me, I’m pretty happy with these plugins:
I’m processing a decent email pipeline so sqlite backend really plays it’s role and performance is much better.
Note for Thunderbird users moving to Mail.app, export/import between those applications was not that smooth. I had to run a script against Thunderbird profile folder before ALL messages were imported successfully. It’s available here.
Have a good Mail.app! 
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