diff --git a/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/HtmlHelper.java b/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/HtmlHelper.java
index a2dc2ff6b0..0c8d32ec59 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/HtmlHelper.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/HtmlHelper.java
@@ -553,6 +553,7 @@ public class HtmlHelper {
                 .addTags("hr", "abbr", "big", "font", "dfn", "ins", "del", "s", "tt", "mark", "address", "input", "samp")
                 .addAttributes(":all", "class")
                 .addAttributes(":all", "style")
+                .addAttributes(":all", "background")
                 .addAttributes("span", "dir")
                 .addAttributes("li", "dir")
                 .addAttributes("div", "x-plain")
@@ -735,16 +736,7 @@ public class HtmlHelper {
                                         url = url.substring(1, url.length() - 1);
                                 }
 
-                                Element img = document.createElement("img")
-                                        .attr("src", url);
-                                if ("table".equals(element.tagName()))
-                                    element.before(img);
-                                else if ("tr".equals(element.tagName()))
-                                    element.prependElement("td").prependChild(img);
-                                else {
-                                    element.prependElement("br");
-                                    element.prependChild(img);
-                                }
+                                insertImage(url, element, document);
                             }
                             break;
                         case "color":
@@ -1111,6 +1103,13 @@ public class HtmlHelper {
                 }
             }
 
+            String background = element.attr("background");
+            if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(background)) {
+                // 30-year-old standard use by AliExpress ...
+                if (UriHelper.isHyperLink(background))
+                    insertImage(background, element, document);
+            }
+
             if (element.isBlock() &&
                     !"true".equals(element.attr("x-inline")))
                 element.attr("x-block", "true");
@@ -1524,6 +1523,18 @@ public class HtmlHelper {
         return document;
     }
 
+    private static void insertImage(String url, Element element, Document document) {
+        Element img = document.createElement("img").attr("src", url);
+        if ("table".equals(element.tagName()))
+            element.before(img);
+        else if ("tr".equals(element.tagName()))
+            element.prependElement("td").prependChild(img);
+        else {
+            element.prependElement("br");
+            element.prependChild(img);
+        }
+    }
+
     static void removeRelativeLinks(Document document) {
         // https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/base
         Elements b = document.select("base");
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/UriHelper.java b/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/UriHelper.java
index 5ed0e2dd69..ca7674770f 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/UriHelper.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/UriHelper.java
@@ -602,6 +602,18 @@ public class UriHelper {
                         "https".equalsIgnoreCase(uri.getScheme())));
     }
 
+    static boolean isHyperLink(String uri) {
+        try {
+            if (uri == null)
+                return false;
+            Uri u = Uri.parse(uri);
+            if (u != null && isHyperLink(u))
+                return true;
+        } catch (Throwable ignored) {
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
     static boolean isMail(Uri uri) {
         return (uri.isOpaque() && "mailto".equalsIgnoreCase(uri.getScheme()));
     }