diff --git a/src/components/EmailBodyView.tsx b/src/components/EmailBodyView.tsx
index 65a1e17b..add6ede5 100644
--- a/src/components/EmailBodyView.tsx
+++ b/src/components/EmailBodyView.tsx
@@ -5,11 +5,10 @@ import { useNavigation } from '@react-navigation/native';
 import type { NativeStackNavigationProp } from '@react-navigation/native-stack';
 import { Image as ImageIcon, ShieldCheck } from 'lucide-react-native';
 import type { Email } from '../api/types';
-import {
-  prepareEmailHtml, wrapPlainTextEmail, plainTextToSafeHtml, extractCidRefs,
-} from '../lib/email-html';
+import { extractCidRefs } from '../lib/email-html';
 import { hasTruncatedDisplayedBody, pickEmailBody, selectRenderableHtml } from '../lib/email-body';
-import { buildQuoteCollapseScript, collapsePlainTextQuotes } from '../lib/quote-collapse';
+import { buildQuoteCollapseScript } from '../lib/quote-collapse';
+import { bodyDocument } from '../lib/email-body-document';
 import { parseMailtoUrl } from '../lib/unsubscribe';
 import { fetchInlineImageDataUri } from '../lib/email-export';
 import { isSenderContentTrusted } from '../lib/trusted-senders';
@@ -583,7 +582,9 @@ export default function EmailBodyView({
 
   React.useEffect(() => {
     setHeight(120);
-    setCidMap({});
+    // Keep the empty map it started with: a new object would rebuild the
+    // document (sanitise the body) a second time on every mount.
+    setCidMap((prev) => (Object.keys(prev).length === 0 ? prev : {}));
     settledRef.current = false;
   }, [email.id]);
 
@@ -628,33 +629,24 @@ export default function EmailBodyView({
     hide: t('email_viewer.hide_quoted_text', 'Hide quoted text'),
   }), [t]);
 
-  const prepared = React.useMemo(() => {
-    if (rawHtml) {
-      const res = prepareEmailHtml(rawHtml, {
-        blockRemoteImages: shouldBlock,
-        cidMap,
-        isDark: renderAsDark,
-        messageSpacing,
-      });
-      return { ...res, isHtml: true };
-    }
-    const fallbackText = text ?? email.preview ?? '';
-    if (!fallbackText) {
-      const res = prepareEmailHtml(
-        `<em style="color:#71717a">${t('email_viewer.no_body_content', '(No body content available)')}</em>`,
-        { isDark: renderAsDark },
-      );
-      return { ...res, isHtml: true };
-    }
-    const safe = collapsePlainTextQuotes(plainTextToSafeHtml(fallbackText), quoteLabels);
-    return {
-      html: wrapPlainTextEmail(safe, { isDark: renderAsDark, font: plainTextFont }),
-      applyInversion: false,
-      hasNativeDark: false,
-      blockedExternal: false,
-      isHtml: false,
-    };
-  }, [rawHtml, text, email.preview, shouldBlock, cidMap, renderAsDark, messageSpacing, plainTextFont, quoteLabels, t]);
+  // Sanitised and wrapped once per message, body and settings, and reused
+  // when the same body mounts again (lib/email-body-document).
+  const emptyLabel = t('email_viewer.no_body_content', '(No body content available)');
+  const prepared = React.useMemo(() => bodyDocument({
+    key: `${jmapAccountId ?? ''}|${email.id}`,
+    rawHtml,
+    text: text ?? email.preview ?? '',
+    emptyLabel,
+    blockRemoteImages: shouldBlock,
+    cidMap,
+    isDark: renderAsDark,
+    messageSpacing,
+    plainTextFont,
+    quoteLabels,
+  }), [
+    jmapAccountId, email.id, rawHtml, text, email.preview, emptyLabel, shouldBlock, cidMap, renderAsDark,
+    messageSpacing, plainTextFont, quoteLabels,
+  ]);
 
   const source = React.useMemo(() => ({ html: prepared.html }), [prepared.html]);
   const showBanner = shouldBlock && prepared.blockedExternal;
diff --git a/src/lib/__tests__/email-body-document.test.ts b/src/lib/__tests__/email-body-document.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b685819e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/__tests__/email-body-document.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach } from 'vitest';
+import { bodyDocument, buildBodyDocument, clearBodyDocuments, type BodyDocumentInput } from '../email-body-document';
+
+function input(over: Partial<BodyDocumentInput> = {}): BodyDocumentInput {
+  return {
+    key: '|e1',
+    rawHtml: '<p>Hello <img src="https://tracker.example/p.gif"></p>',
+    text: null,
+    emptyLabel: '(No body content available)',
+    blockRemoteImages: true,
+    cidMap: {},
+    isDark: false,
+    messageSpacing: 'auto',
+    plainTextFont: 'sans',
+    quoteLabels: { show: 'Show quoted text', hide: 'Hide quoted text' },
+    ...over,
+  };
+}
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  clearBodyDocuments();
+});
+
+describe('bodyDocument', () => {
+  it('builds a mounted-again body only once', () => {
+    const first = bodyDocument(input());
+    // A remount passes equal values in new objects (a fresh empty cid map).
+    const again = bodyDocument(input({ cidMap: {}, quoteLabels: { show: 'Show quoted text', hide: 'Hide quoted text' } }));
+
+    expect(again).toBe(first);
+    expect(first.isHtml).toBe(true);
+    expect(first.blockedExternal).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('matches what building it directly gives', () => {
+    expect(bodyDocument(input())).toEqual(buildBodyDocument(input()));
+    const text = input({ rawHtml: null, text: 'Hi\n\n> quoted' });
+    expect(bodyDocument(text)).toEqual(buildBodyDocument(text));
+    expect(bodyDocument(text).isHtml).toBe(false);
+    const empty = input({ rawHtml: null, text: '' });
+    expect(bodyDocument(empty).html).toContain('(No body content available)');
+  });
+
+  it('rebuilds when a setting or the source changes', () => {
+    const first = bodyDocument(input());
+
+    expect(bodyDocument(input({ isDark: true }))).not.toBe(first);
+    expect(bodyDocument(input({ blockRemoteImages: false }))).not.toBe(first);
+    expect(bodyDocument(input({ rawHtml: '<p>Other</p>' })).html).toContain('Other');
+    expect(bodyDocument(input({ cidMap: { a: 'data:image/png;base64,AA' } }))).not.toBe(first);
+  });
+
+  it('keeps messages apart by key', () => {
+    const a = bodyDocument(input({ key: '|e1' }));
+    const b = bodyDocument(input({ key: 'group|e1' }));
+    expect(b).not.toBe(a);
+    expect(bodyDocument(input({ key: '|e1' }))).toBe(a);
+  });
+
+  it('forgets the least recently used documents', () => {
+    const first = bodyDocument(input({ key: '|m0' }));
+    for (let i = 1; i <= 10; i++) bodyDocument(input({ key: `|m${i}` }));
+    expect(bodyDocument(input({ key: '|m0' }))).not.toBe(first);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/email-body-document.ts b/src/lib/email-body-document.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ddab3ba8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/email-body-document.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+// The sandboxed document a message body is shown in, built once per message
+// and rendering settings. Sanitising a large newsletter is a noticeable chunk
+// of JS time, and the viewer mounts the same body again and again: the page
+// beside the open one becomes the open one, a card is collapsed and opened,
+// the message is opened a second time. Those reuse the document built before.
+
+import {
+  prepareEmailHtml, wrapPlainTextEmail, plainTextToSafeHtml,
+  type MessageSpacing, type PlainTextFont,
+} from './email-html';
+import { collapsePlainTextQuotes, type QuoteCollapseLabels } from './quote-collapse';
+
+export interface BodyDocumentInput {
+  /** The message (account and id); the sources below are compared as well. */
+  key: string;
+  /** The HTML part to render, if any. */
+  rawHtml: string | null;
+  /** The plain text to render when there is no HTML part. */
+  text: string | null;
+  /** Shown when there is neither. */
+  emptyLabel: string;
+  blockRemoteImages: boolean;
+  cidMap: Record<string, string>;
+  isDark: boolean;
+  messageSpacing: MessageSpacing;
+  plainTextFont: PlainTextFont;
+  quoteLabels: QuoteCollapseLabels;
+}
+
+export interface BodyDocument {
+  html: string;
+  /** Inversion CSS is in effect; the DOM re-invert pass should run. */
+  applyInversion: boolean;
+  hasNativeDark: boolean;
+  /** At least one external resource was neutralised. */
+  blockedExternal: boolean;
+  isHtml: boolean;
+}
+
+/** Build the document (no caching). */
+export function buildBodyDocument(input: BodyDocumentInput): BodyDocument {
+  const { rawHtml, text, isDark } = input;
+  if (rawHtml) {
+    const res = prepareEmailHtml(rawHtml, {
+      blockRemoteImages: input.blockRemoteImages,
+      cidMap: input.cidMap,
+      isDark,
+      messageSpacing: input.messageSpacing,
+    });
+    return { ...res, isHtml: true };
+  }
+  if (!text) {
+    const res = prepareEmailHtml(`<em style="color:#71717a">${input.emptyLabel}</em>`, { isDark });
+    return { ...res, isHtml: true };
+  }
+  const safe = collapsePlainTextQuotes(plainTextToSafeHtml(text), input.quoteLabels);
+  return {
+    html: wrapPlainTextEmail(safe, { isDark, font: input.plainTextFont }),
+    applyInversion: false,
+    hasNativeDark: false,
+    blockedExternal: false,
+    isHtml: false,
+  };
+}
+
+const MAX_DOCUMENTS = 10;
+const documents = new Map<string, { input: BodyDocumentInput; doc: BodyDocument }>();
+
+function sameCidMap(a: Record<string, string>, b: Record<string, string>): boolean {
+  if (a === b) return true;
+  const ak = Object.keys(a);
+  return ak.length === Object.keys(b).length && ak.every((k) => a[k] === b[k]);
+}
+
+function sameSources(a: BodyDocumentInput, b: BodyDocumentInput): boolean {
+  return a.rawHtml === b.rawHtml && a.text === b.text && sameCidMap(a.cidMap, b.cidMap);
+}
+
+/**
+ * The document for a message body, built at most once per message, body and
+ * settings (see the module comment). The same input returns the same object.
+ */
+export function bodyDocument(input: BodyDocumentInput): BodyDocument {
+  const key = JSON.stringify([
+    input.key, input.blockRemoteImages, input.isDark, input.messageSpacing, input.plainTextFont,
+    input.quoteLabels.show, input.quoteLabels.hide, input.emptyLabel,
+  ]);
+  const hit = documents.get(key);
+  if (hit && sameSources(hit.input, input)) {
+    documents.delete(key);
+    documents.set(key, hit);
+    return hit.doc;
+  }
+  const doc = buildBodyDocument(input);
+  documents.delete(key);
+  documents.set(key, { input, doc });
+  while (documents.size > MAX_DOCUMENTS) documents.delete(documents.keys().next().value as string);
+  return doc;
+}
+
+/** Forget every document built (tests). */
+export function clearBodyDocuments(): void {
+  documents.clear();
+}