HTML messages in mail.app ???

Ok this may be a really obvious and idiotic question but.... I'm thinking of starting to use "mail.ap" instead or Entourage and I simply can't find something. I want to always use HTML messages and yet the only options I "appear" to have is under Preferences->Compose and I can only select "plain text" or "Rich text" as my message format. Does this mean I can't send HTML mesages? Is that really the case?
If I can send HTML messages could someone please tell me how?
TIA,
Peter

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