Can emails in Mail be set up with a reminder as it is in Outlook?

I used to use Outlook at my previous job. I would often set a reminder on an email so I would not forget something I needed to attend to. However, I have not been able to find a way to do that with Mail. I am using Mail version 8.1 and recently upgraded my OS to Yosemite. Any advice?

chrisminn wrote:
Thanks for your help. Actually it doesn't solve my problem because I would really like a way to add a reminder directly to an email in Mail in the same way it can be done in Outlook.
Buy Office for Mac or VM windows to use Office PC. Most Apple software follows the Unix paradigm that programs perform one function.
Also, I did bring up Reminders to my dock and tried to drag an email into it, but nothing happened so even that didn't work for me.
You have to drop into the desired group within Reminders, not on the Dock icon. You could send feedback to Apple to enable it to just pick the group it thinks you might want when dropping on the Dock icon.
To drop into a group, either hover over the Dock icon until Exposé is invoked, then hover over the Reminders window until it comes into Focus. Pick a group and drop.
Or, cmd-tab to Reminders, then pick a group and drop.

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