diff --git a/app/globals.css b/app/globals.css
index 4b2d1293..0b023abb 100644
--- a/app/globals.css
+++ b/app/globals.css
@@ -96,16 +96,15 @@
   text-align: inherit;
 }
 
-/* Email content wrapper should still force LTR for quoted content */
+/* Email content wrapper should respect natural text direction */
 .email-content-wrapper {
-  direction: ltr !important;
-  unicode-bidi: isolate !important;
-  text-align: left !important;
+  direction: auto;
+  unicode-bidi: isolate;
+  text-align: initial;
 }
 
 .email-content-wrapper * {
-  direction: ltr !important;
-  unicode-bidi: isolate !important;
-  text-align: left !important;
+  max-width: 100%;
+  word-wrap: break-word;
 }
 
diff --git a/components/email/EmailPreview.tsx b/components/email/EmailPreview.tsx
index 84a1e7c5..d04c87ad 100644
--- a/components/email/EmailPreview.tsx
+++ b/components/email/EmailPreview.tsx
@@ -59,24 +59,14 @@ export default function EmailPreview({ email, loading = false, onReply }: EmailP
     if (!email?.content) return <p>No content available</p>;
     
     try {
-      // Use DOMPurify directly with enhanced sanitization options
-      const sanitizedContent = DOMPurify.sanitize(email.content, {
-        ADD_TAGS: ['style', 'meta', 'link', 'table', 'thead', 'tbody', 'tr', 'td', 'th', 'hr', 'font', 'div', 'span', 'a', 'img', 'b', 'strong', 'i', 'em', 'u', 'br', 'p', 'ul', 'ol', 'li', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6', 'blockquote', 'pre', 'code', 'center', 'section', 'header', 'footer', 'article', 'nav', 'keyframes'],
-        ADD_ATTR: ['*', 'colspan', 'rowspan', 'cellpadding', 'cellspacing', 'border', 'bgcolor', 'width', 'height', 'align', 'valign', 'class', 'id', 'style', 'color', 'face', 'size', 'background', 'src', 'href', 'target', 'rel', 'alt', 'title', 'name', 'animation', 'animation-name', 'animation-duration', 'animation-fill-mode'],
-        ALLOW_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOLS: true,
-        WHOLE_DOCUMENT: true,
-        KEEP_CONTENT: true,
-        RETURN_DOM: false,
-        FORBID_TAGS: ['script', 'iframe', 'object', 'embed', 'form', 'input', 'button', 'select', 'option', 'textarea', 'canvas', 'video', 'audio'],
-        FORBID_ATTR: ['onerror', 'onload', 'onclick', 'onmouseover', 'onmouseout', 'onchange', 'onsubmit'],
-        USE_PROFILES: { html: true, svg: false, svgFilters: false, mathMl: false },
-        FORCE_BODY: true
-      });
+      // Use the centralized sanitizeHtml function which preserves direction
+      const sanitizedContent = sanitizeHtml(email.content);
       
       return (
         <div 
           className="email-content prose max-w-none dark:prose-invert"
           dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: sanitizedContent }}
+          dir="auto"
         />
       );
     } catch (error) {