Prevent stripping of custom CSS when creating an email template?

Prevent stripping of custom CSS when creating an email template?

Anyone have a workaround for this? Zoho really needs to hire new designers - templates are terrible.

A custom template has been created, but every time we try to use it, it strips out all the CSS from the head. 

IE, we'll define the styles right in the <head> (simple example below) and everything gets stripped (initially, it saves fine, but when you browse away and come back to the template, all the custom css is removed).

<style type="text/css">
.footerContent a{display:block !important;}
</style>