SharePoint: Why does my email template look good in my SharePoint list and so bad in Outlook?

I have recently implemented a simple email solution as part of a project. The project required the emails subject and body to be configurable. That was easy - create a template list and extract the data where required.

The problem is that the email body looks great in SharePoint, but less that spectacular in Outlook. I tried several options, including removing all DIVs and removing all of the extra 'goodness' that SharePoint injects. No luck.

The solution was to write the html IN A SINGLE LINE. No line breaks. It seems that Outlook still picks up that information and that caused the rendering issue.

So
<table>
 <tr>
  <td>My Stuff</td>
 </tr>
</table>

became <table><tr><td>My Stuff</td></tr></table>