Best (or best for me) email client

I've just started using my new MacBook Pro with OS 10.4, graduating from a PB G4. And I'm looking for guidance on the best email client to use with it. I abandoned Mail ages ago, because it didn't handle HTML - has that changed?* I abandoned Entourage because it didn't allow bulk sends, so I've been using Thunderbird.
So I want an email client that will handle HTML, groups, and bulk sends. And I would like to centralise all my contacts on the Apple Address Book, so ideally I want the email client to read that for email addresses when I start entering a recipient.
Suggestions please!
* I tried to open Mail to look at it, but it asked if I want to import all my emails etc. As the answer is currently no, it won't load - a bit silly!
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

"One negative to using the Mac Mail app in OSX is it doesn't
include a HTML composer like most of the others do."
Do you regularly need to insert your own HTML code within the body of a message?
If not, RTF with Tiger Mail is HTML but you must select a font via the font panel when composing a message and/or bold/underline selected text or change the color of all or selected text for the message to be sent as HTML.
Using Tiger's Safari, you can send a web page in its entirety via a Mail.app message. At the Safari menu bar, go to File and select Mail Contents of This Page. The web page will be copied to a new Mail.app message which will be sent in its entirety.
If you don't regularly need to insert your own HTML code but need to do so on occasion, you can use the HTML editor/composer of your choice (Apple's Text Edit application can be used for this) and save the complete HTML document. Open the saved document with Safari and after confirming the HTML layout is as desired, use Mail Contents of This Page.
Just thought I throw this in as an FYI.

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