Showing Size of Email Message While Composing

With OS 10.4.11, the bottom of a message window would show the size of an email message I was composing. This is important when attachments may be too large to be transmitted.
With OS 10.6.1, I do not see this feature. Does it still exist and, if so, where do I find it?
Thanks.

Ira, and others,
In 10.4.11, the size of a message was not shown until a file was attached, coincident with showing the Image Size button. The difference both Mail 3.x and Mail 4.x vs Mail 2.x, is that that will only happen if a true photo image file is attached, and with no other file type. In Mail 2.x and 10.4, you could resize files such as PDF -- but they were no longer PDF, but instead became JPEG -- this was too often problematic. So now the Image Size button menu is only offered with photo image files, and without the Image Size button, message size has never been reported.
If you add, say, a JPEG to a message you are composing, then you will see the size of the message and the Image Size button menu.
Ernie
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