diff --git a/java/com.sap.sailing.server/resources/com/sap/sailing/server/notification/impl/notification-mail-template.html b/java/com.sap.sailing.server/resources/com/sap/sailing/server/notification/impl/notification-mail-template.html
index 95dd25bf605..c8ffaee8549 100644
--- a/java/com.sap.sailing.server/resources/com/sap/sailing/server/notification/impl/notification-mail-template.html
+++ b/java/com.sap.sailing.server/resources/com/sap/sailing/server/notification/impl/notification-mail-template.html
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   </head>
   <body marginheight="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" bgcolor="#e3e3e3" offset="0" leftmargin="0" style="background-color: #e3e3e3;">
     <div class="body" style="background-color:#e3e3e3;color:black;padding:40px;max-width:800px;margin:0 auto;margin-bottom:100px;font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif">
-      <div class="main" style="border:1px solid black">
+      <div class="main" style="border:1px solid black;background-color:white">
         <table class="header" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="padding:0;margin:0;background-color:black;border-color:black;width:100%;border-bottom:3px solid #efaa00">
           <tr>
             <td height="10" colspan="4"></td>
diff --git a/java/com.sap.sailing.server/resources/com/sap/sailing/server/notification/impl/notification-mail-template.original.html b/java/com.sap.sailing.server/resources/com/sap/sailing/server/notification/impl/notification-mail-template.original.html
index 59702997e3f..db76746ec27 100644
--- a/java/com.sap.sailing.server/resources/com/sap/sailing/server/notification/impl/notification-mail-template.original.html
+++ b/java/com.sap.sailing.server/resources/com/sap/sailing/server/notification/impl/notification-mail-template.original.html
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 
         .main {
             border: 1px solid black;
+            background-color: white;
         }
 
         .header {