For whatever reasons there may be, my client wants HTML email to be sent by his estore. Gmail absolutely butchers it. A simple table with two collumns and text in each renders in IE at Largest text size one on top of the other! Even if I fix the font size in the embedded style sheet. In looking into solutions, I found two resources. Perhaps others have more. <tip type="HTML Mail in Browser-Based Email Clients" author="Hershel Robinson"> HTML mail does not render as expected in many browser-based email clients, including some fairly popular ones. Two resources with research on this subject: http://www.eroi.com/resources/testing-email-in-gmail-hotmail.htm http://www.lyris.com/resources/articles/200510say_it_with_style.html </tip>