Lion mail To Do?

Did Apple do away with To Do in Lion Mail? I can't find it and I rely on it!

Yes Apple seem to have removed to do functionality from mail, which, although it wasn't very elegant, at least had some integration with iCal so we could schedule tasks from within mails. The removeal of to dos has completely broken my simple scheduling workflow. So now we have to find another mail application that can schedule with a calendar app, or there's an inelegant workaround:
You still can't drag a mail into the Reminders panel (used to be to dos). But you can drag them onto a date, which creates an event. You can then drag that event into the reminders panel and delete it from from the date. Then you can uncheck the "all day" in the reminder and you have a reminder linked to the mail which you can set alarms for etc. Like I said, pretty inelegant (which is me being very diplomatic given the context).
I suppose you could do some thing with flags within the new mail but I can't see away to set alarms on them.
But for me it looks like I'll have to go back to Office 2011's Outlook if I am to have a scheduling workfolw that is any use. Shame.

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