diff --git a/lib/__tests__/email-sanitization.test.ts b/lib/__tests__/email-sanitization.test.ts
index 1f9c2cb2..b2426a68 100644
--- a/lib/__tests__/email-sanitization.test.ts
+++ b/lib/__tests__/email-sanitization.test.ts
@@ -168,19 +168,32 @@ describe('email-sanitization', () => {
       expect(sanitizeSignatureHtml('   ')).toBe('');
     });
 
-    it('should be stricter than email sanitization', () => {
-      const html = '<p>Text</p><table><tr><td>Data</td></tr></table><video src="v.mp4"></video>';
+    it('should be stricter than email sanitization for script-bearing tags', () => {
+      const html = '<p>Text</p><table><tr><td>Data</td></tr></table><video src="v.mp4"></video><iframe src="x"></iframe>';
       const emailClean = sanitizeEmailHtml(html);
       const signatureClean = sanitizeSignatureHtml(html);
 
-      // Email allows table
+      // Both preserve tables (signatures are universally table-based)
       expect(emailClean).toContain('<table>');
+      expect(signatureClean).toContain('<table');
+      expect(signatureClean).toContain('Data');
 
-      // Signature blocks table and video
-      expect(signatureClean).not.toContain('<table');
+      // Signature still blocks media and frames
       expect(signatureClean).not.toContain('<video');
+      expect(signatureClean).not.toContain('<iframe');
       expect(signatureClean).toContain('Text');
     });
+
+    it('should preserve table layout attributes used by email signatures', () => {
+      const signature = '<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" align="left" bgcolor="#fafafa" colspan="2">Name</td></tr></table>';
+      const clean = sanitizeSignatureHtml(signature);
+      expect(clean).toContain('cellpadding');
+      expect(clean).toContain('cellspacing');
+      expect(clean).toContain('valign');
+      expect(clean).toContain('align');
+      expect(clean).toContain('bgcolor');
+      expect(clean).toContain('colspan');
+    });
   });
 
   describe('parseHtmlSafely', () => {
diff --git a/lib/email-sanitization.ts b/lib/email-sanitization.ts
index bee197f2..20145f55 100644
--- a/lib/email-sanitization.ts
+++ b/lib/email-sanitization.ts
@@ -58,11 +58,19 @@ export function sanitizeEmailHtmlForIframe(html: string): string {
 
 /**
  * Sanitize HTML signature with stricter rules
- * Allows basic formatting plus <img> for company logos
+ * Allows basic formatting plus <img> for company logos, plus table-based
+ * layouts (the de-facto standard for email signatures).
  */
 export const SIGNATURE_SANITIZE_CONFIG = {
-  ALLOWED_TAGS: ['p', 'br', 'b', 'strong', 'i', 'em', 'u', 'a', 'span', 'div', 'img'],
-  ALLOWED_ATTR: ['href', 'style', 'class', 'src', 'alt', 'width', 'height', 'title'],
+  ALLOWED_TAGS: [
+    'p', 'br', 'b', 'strong', 'i', 'em', 'u', 'a', 'span', 'div', 'img',
+    'table', 'thead', 'tbody', 'tfoot', 'tr', 'td', 'th',
+  ],
+  ALLOWED_ATTR: [
+    'href', 'style', 'class', 'src', 'alt', 'width', 'height', 'title',
+    'cellpadding', 'cellspacing', 'border', 'valign', 'align', 'bgcolor',
+    'colspan', 'rowspan',
+  ],
   ALLOW_DATA_ATTR: false,
   FORBID_TAGS: ['script', 'iframe', 'object', 'embed', 'video', 'audio'],
   FORBID_ATTR: ['onerror', 'onload', 'onclick', 'onmouseover'],