diff --git a/lib/utils/email-content.ts b/lib/utils/email-content.ts
index 8c06fc09..dac643c4 100644
--- a/lib/utils/email-content.ts
+++ b/lib/utils/email-content.ts
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ export function processHtmlContent(htmlContent: string, textContent?: string): s
     // Use the centralized sanitizeHtml function
     let sanitizedContent = sanitizeHtml(htmlContent);
     
-    // Fix URL encoding issues
+    // Fix URL encoding issues and clean up content
     try {
       if (typeof window !== 'undefined' && typeof document !== 'undefined') {
         // Temporary element to manipulate the HTML
@@ -261,11 +261,45 @@ export function processHtmlContent(htmlContent: string, textContent?: string): s
           }
         });
         
+        // Clean up excessive whitespace and empty elements
+        // Find all text nodes and normalize whitespace
+        const walker = document.createTreeWalker(
+          tempDiv,
+          NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT,
+          null
+        );
+        
+        const textNodes = [];
+        while (walker.nextNode()) {
+          textNodes.push(walker.currentNode);
+        }
+        
+        // Process text nodes to normalize whitespace
+        textNodes.forEach(node => {
+          if (node.nodeValue) {
+            // Replace sequences of whitespace with a single space
+            node.nodeValue = node.nodeValue.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim();
+          }
+        });
+        
+        // Remove empty paragraphs and divs that contain only whitespace
+        const emptyElements = tempDiv.querySelectorAll('p, div, span');
+        emptyElements.forEach(el => {
+          if (el.innerHTML.trim() === '' || el.innerHTML === ' ') {
+            el.parentNode?.removeChild(el);
+          }
+        });
+        
+        // Remove excessive consecutive <br> tags (more than 2)
+        let html = tempDiv.innerHTML;
+        html = html.replace(/(<br\s*\/?>\s*){3,}/gi, '<br><br>');
+        tempDiv.innerHTML = html;
+        
         // Get the fixed HTML
         sanitizedContent = tempDiv.innerHTML;
       }
     } catch (e) {
-      console.error('Error fixing URLs in content:', e);
+      console.error('Error fixing content:', e);
     }
     
     // Fix common email client quirks without breaking cid: URLs
@@ -277,7 +311,9 @@ export function processHtmlContent(htmlContent: string, textContent?: string): s
       // Fix for base64 images that might be broken across lines
       .replace(/src="data:image\/[^;]+;base64,\s*([^"]+)\s*"/gi, (match, p1) => {
         return `src="data:image/png;base64,${p1.replace(/\s+/g, '')}"`;
-      });
+      })
+      // Remove excessive whitespace from the HTML string itself
+      .replace(/>\s+</g, '> <');
   } catch (error) {
     console.error('Error processing HTML content:', error);
     return htmlContent;