Composing mail with background color?

Does anyone know of a way to compose a message in Mail with a background color (say, light blue) behind the text? I know Mail lets you choose type colors, and also lets you set text and background colors for the message header as it appears in the directory, but I've not found a way to set a background color for the message window itself. Anybody know how?
I'm running OS 10.3.9 with Mail 1.3.11.
Thanks!

Well, judging by the complete lack of answers from Apple, I think it's safe to say adding background color to a message is not supported in OS X Mail (At least, not 2.1.1).
The likeliest place to specify a document or background color would have to be the Fonts dialog, since it contains a specific selector for "Document Color". Of course, this is the same Fonts dialog that is integrated throughout the whole OS, and this particular control has no effect on a Mac Mail message. I've tried selecting system colors, web colors, even picked a color using the eyedropper with no success.
I'm going to speculate that this is because document color is a feature of HTML formatting -not Rich Text formatting- and Mac Mail (up to version 2.1.1) doesn't even offer HTML formatting as an option. Pretty lame, if you ask me.
That said, I see the version of mail shipping with Leopard is promising custom "stationary", and that usually means HTML format. I guess we'll have to go upgrade the whole OS just to get this rudimentary capability.

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