diff --git a/lib/helpers.js b/lib/helpers.js
index 0d57973c..2c2f26b8 100644
--- a/lib/helpers.js
+++ b/lib/helpers.js
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ module.exports.stripHTML = stripHTML;
 function stripHTML(str){
     str = (str || "").toString("utf-8").trim();
 
+    // remove style
+    str = str.replace(/<style[\s\S]{1,}?\/style>/gi, '');
+
     // replace newlines
     str = str.replace(/\r?\n|\r/g,"-\u0002\u0002-");
 
diff --git a/test/nodemailer.js b/test/nodemailer.js
index 777473cd..fcb1bd1f 100644
--- a/test/nodemailer.js
+++ b/test/nodemailer.js
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ exports["General tests"] = {
     
     "stripHTML": function(test){
         
-        var html = "<h1>Tere &raquo;</h1><ul><li>Test</li></ul>",
+        var html = "<style>h1{color:#fe57a1}</style><h1>Tere &raquo;</h1><ul><li>Test</li></ul>",
             output = "Tere »\n======\n\n  * Test";
         
         test.equal(stripHTML(html).trim(), output);