Good, then you might be able to help me when I have trouble with those tables
Don't know, I've always had a split feeling about HTML email (is that correct English?). Email is just a totally different medium. Designing full-blown graphic designs for email don't (always) make sense. To me. A webpage is a webpage, an email is an email. Trying to mix the two is it really necessary? Email is supposed to be a short writing send over the internet instead of a paper letter.
Of course I understand that the marketing guys want to dump all that glossy advertising stuff in your mailbox. And I'm sure a well-designed (!) html email has more effect then a plain text one.
I think there should be a more basic standard for html email. A subset of html/css. Just enough to style an email a bit. But not enough to create full-blown websites inside your mail client, which is not needed in my opinion. And which mail clients will prevent, due to security issues etc.
Hopefully the people from the
http://www.email-standards.org/why/ will be able to make a difference