diff --git a/api/js/etemplate/et2_widget_htmlarea.ts b/api/js/etemplate/et2_widget_htmlarea.ts
index 5d0d6fb4f6..aea8a45958 100644
--- a/api/js/etemplate/et2_widget_htmlarea.ts
+++ b/api/js/etemplate/et2_widget_htmlarea.ts
@@ -278,8 +278,8 @@ export class et2_htmlarea extends et2_editableWidget implements et2_IResizeable
 				"Wingdings=wingdings,zapf dingbats",
 			fontsize_formats: '8pt 10pt 12pt 14pt 18pt 24pt 36pt',
 			content_css: egw.webserverUrl+'/api/tinymce.php?'+	// use the 3 prefs as cache-buster
-				btoa(egw.preference('rte_font', 'common')+':'+
-					egw.preference('rte_font_size', 'common')+':'+
+				btoa(egw.preference('rte_font', 'common')+'::'+
+					egw.preference('rte_font_size', 'common')+'::'+
 					egw.preference('rte_font_unit', 'common')),
 		};
 		const rte_formatblock = <string>(egw.preference('rte_formatblock', 'common') || 'p');
diff --git a/api/src/Etemplate/Widget/HtmlArea.php b/api/src/Etemplate/Widget/HtmlArea.php
index 264aae0ff9..3fa18f64a7 100644
--- a/api/src/Etemplate/Widget/HtmlArea.php
+++ b/api/src/Etemplate/Widget/HtmlArea.php
@@ -257,13 +257,13 @@ code {
 }
 .mce-content-body:not([dir=rtl]) blockquote {
   border-left: 2px solid #ccc;
-  margin-left: 1.5rem;
-  padding-left: 1rem;
+  margin-left: 0;
+  padding-left: 10px;
 }
 .mce-content-body[dir=rtl] blockquote {
   border-right: 2px solid #ccc;
-  margin-right: 1.5rem;
-  padding-right: 1rem;
+  margin-right: 0;
+  padding-right: 10px;
 }
 fieldset {
 	border: 2px solid silver; 
diff --git a/mail/inc/class.mail_ui.inc.php b/mail/inc/class.mail_ui.inc.php
index 77b4742642..e8e21c750f 100644
--- a/mail/inc/class.mail_ui.inc.php
+++ b/mail/inc/class.mail_ui.inc.php
@@ -3356,11 +3356,6 @@ $filter['before']= date("d-M-Y", $cutoffdate2);
 		$GLOBALS['egw_info']['flags']['nonavbar']=true;
 		// do NOT include any default CSS
 		Framework::includeCSS('mail', 'preview', true, true);
-		// include TinyMCE CSS prefs after preview CSS
-		Framework::includeCSS('/api/tinymce.php?'.	// use the 3 prefs as cache-buster
-			base64_encode($GLOBALS['egw_info']['user']['preferences']['common']['rte_font'].':'.
-				$GLOBALS['egw_info']['user']['preferences']['common']['rte_font_size'].':'.
-				$GLOBALS['egw_info']['user']['preferences']['common']['rte_font_unit']));
 
 		// load preview.js to activate mailto links
 		Framework::includeJS('/mail/js/preview.js');