macOS Ventura Apple Mail messages are blank / empty

Same problem here. Strange thing: it just started today. I use Ventura 13.4 and did not do anything special. Mail just stopped showing mail sent from mailing lists and there seems nothing i can do about it. But I do want to see the mails from subscriptions, obviously.

What to do?

The problems continued with the Mac mini. I lost patience with the Genius Bar and insisted that the logic board in the machine be replaced. The board was replaced and since then with a clean install of Sonoma there have been no problems of any kind.

John

I tried the option in OnyX --> Maintenance --> Mailboxes in Mail --> Rebuild the index

but it didn't work for me.

All other options were left at the default settings:

Verifying, both turned on;

Rebuilding --> Launch Services database, turned on;

Cleaning, all four options turned on.

I've had the problem with some blank emails, especially those with images, for six or nine months now! Choosing to Forward an email usually loads the entire message but it's ****** annoying and shameful Apple's let it go on for so long...

I know that this not necessarily a very helpful answer or what people want to hear, but an Erase and Install seems to be the only reliable solution.

As suewestlake experienced with a new Mac and I have seen since the logic board in my new Mac mini was replaced, the problem goes away. In both cases, this was effectively an Erase and Install.

Two other very experienced users to whom I have spoken personally have had the problem on their Macs and used the Erase and Install solution and have not experienced a return of the problem. In both cases Sonoma was installed after the Erase had been performed so the clean install of Sonoma seems to fix the problem. I don't know if a clean install of Ventura does.

From what I can deduce from my own experience and the conversations I have had with other people, the problem is caused by some sort of caching issue in the OS. Once the problem has occurred, it seems that the only solution is an Erase and Install.

We have two other Macs, an M1 MacBook Air and a 24 inch M1 iMac neither of which have exhibited the problem.

John

I'm having the same issue but only with Yahoo emails. Turning off Mail Privacy Protection didn't fix the issue nor did rebuilding the mailbox.

i'm having the exact same issue

Have the same problem on 13.1.

Tried rebuild and lost some emails... so that was not good!

same problem. mail works perfectly fine on iPad and iPhone.

Had same issue using Outlook. Moving emails did not good.

Not just me then! Thank you.

Not limited to Ventura. My Macs on Monterey are experiencing the same issue. Very annoying to say the least...

For what it's worth, I ran Onyx maintenance utilities and that seems to have fixed the problem for me. I'm running Monterey 12.6.7 on a mid-2015 MBPro. Maybe it will work for others?