diff --git a/app/api/parse-email/route.ts b/app/api/parse-email/route.ts
index 5b524c6c..2db8bb65 100644
--- a/app/api/parse-email/route.ts
+++ b/app/api/parse-email/route.ts
@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ import { parseEmail } from '@/lib/server/email-parser';
 
 export async function POST(request: Request) {
   try {
-    const { emailContent } = await request.json();
+    const body = await request.json();
+    const { emailContent } = body;
     
-    if (!emailContent) {
+    if (!emailContent || typeof emailContent !== 'string') {
       return NextResponse.json(
-        { error: 'Email content is required' },
+        { error: 'Invalid email content. Expected a string.' },
         { status: 400 }
       );
     }
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ export async function POST(request: Request) {
   } catch (error) {
     console.error('Error parsing email:', error);
     return NextResponse.json(
-      { error: 'Failed to parse email' },
+      { error: 'Failed to parse email', details: error instanceof Error ? error.message : 'Unknown error' },
       { status: 500 }
     );
   }
diff --git a/lib/mail-parser-wrapper.ts b/lib/mail-parser-wrapper.ts
index f39efd6b..63684246 100644
--- a/lib/mail-parser-wrapper.ts
+++ b/lib/mail-parser-wrapper.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import { simpleParser, ParsedMail, Attachment, HeaderValue, AddressObject } from 'mailparser';
 import DOMPurify from 'dompurify';
-import { JSDOM } from 'jsdom';
 
 // Create a window object for DOMPurify
 const window = new JSDOM('').window;
diff --git a/lib/server/email-parser.ts b/lib/server/email-parser.ts
index 85b20e54..587644da 100644
--- a/lib/server/email-parser.ts
+++ b/lib/server/email-parser.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,20 @@
 import { simpleParser } from 'mailparser';
-import DOMPurify from 'isomorphic-dompurify';
 
 function cleanHtml(html: string): string {
   try {
-    return DOMPurify.sanitize(html, {
-      ALLOWED_TAGS: ['p', 'br', 'div', 'span', 'a', 'img', 'strong', 'em', 'u', 'ul', 'ol', 'li', 'blockquote', 'pre', 'code', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6'],
-      ALLOWED_ATTR: ['href', 'src', 'alt', 'title', 'class', 'style'],
-      ALLOWED_URI_REGEXP: /^(?:(?:(?:f|ht)tps?|mailto|tel):|[^a-z]|[a-z+.\-]+(?:[^a-z+.\-:]|$))/i
-    });
+    // Basic HTML cleaning without DOMPurify
+    return html
+      .replace(/<script\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/script>)<[^<]*)*<\/script>/gi, '') // Remove script tags
+      .replace(/<style\b[^<]*(?:(?!<\/style>)<[^<]*)*<\/style>/gi, '') // Remove style tags
+      .replace(/<meta[^>]*>/gi, '') // Remove meta tags
+      .replace(/<head[^>]*>[\s\S]*?<\/head>/gi, '') // Remove head
+      .replace(/<title[^>]*>[\s\S]*?<\/title>/gi, '') // Remove title
+      .replace(/<body[^>]*>/gi, '') // Remove body opening tag
+      .replace(/<\/body>/gi, '') // Remove body closing tag
+      .replace(/<html[^>]*>/gi, '') // Remove html opening tag
+      .replace(/<\/html>/gi, '') // Remove html closing tag
+      .replace(/\s+/g, ' ') // Clean up whitespace
+      .trim();
   } catch (error) {
     console.error('Error cleaning HTML:', error);
     return html;