mail-to-blogger using Message

[trashbird1240]

Hello, I have a blog at http://trashbird1240.blogspot.com.  I write my
email in message mode and would like to use Mail-to-blogger to get my
posts there, so I can avoid using the clumsy web interface (which
means it is not Emacs, of course).  However, when I write an html
document, then include that in an email and send it to my secret mail-
to-blogger address, all the html gets interpreted so that the text
will display literally on my blog.

What I mean is that if I enter html with tags, like this

<a href="www.gnu.org">GNU's Not Unix</a>

it ends up looking like this when published:

&lt;a href="www.gnu.org"<a href="www.gnu.org"</a>&gt;GNU's Not
Unix&lt;/a&gt;

I want to edit the html myself so I can format the text.

Does anyone use a similar route and have you achieved satisfaction
getting your markup through to the published blog?

Thanks,
Joel