from you then there is no problem with this. The problems come with emailing people you don't know. People use services like MailChimp through a website where people have opted in (twice: once as they enter their email address; and again when they click a confirmation link). When I do these HTML emails it's for clients who have set these email lists up themselves. They are usually quite large companies with quite large lists so I presume they know what they're doing and won't get blacklisted! I had to laugh at the bit, don't pull your hair out, get frustrated, write hate mail blah, blah. That's how I feel sometimes when it comes to doing these templates. So I better go have that cuppa tea now. After swearing at Microshaft, dont try and do your email in 1 big table. Instead create 1 outer table with 100% width and td align center (this will guarantee your email remains centered. Inside (nested) create a table for your header, beneath it a table for your content, and a table for your footer. Try to avoid nesting (apart form your initial nest). Use spacer gif in all empty table cells. Set width of all internal tables to the same I always specify in pixels, usually 600 to 700 px width. If you want to specify exact column widths create a row either above or below and place spacer gif in there and specify the width of the spacer gif to the width of