Mail shows empty message body

Found a good workaround.

1. Select message.

2. hit 'delete'

3. hit 'command-z'

When the message comes back, you can see the body.

I'm also seeing this. OS X 10.8.2 connecting to Microsoft's new Office 365 service (which is just an Exchange server in the cloud).

Please, Apple, don't make me use Outlook as a mail client. Please.

I researched this for days and tried a ton of solutions and none worked out. Turns out the fix was pretty simple for me. Detailed here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2264110

I know it refers to Blackberry, but it worked fine for fixing up the "no content" problem on 3 Mac Mail installations with Exchange 2007, and only took about 10 minutes and one reboot of the Exchange server. Obviously, if you don't have IT support or access to your Exchange server, you are out of luck.

I've found that restarting Mail.app is a reliable (but slightly irritating) work-around.

Yeah, it's very annoying. In addition, Mail would always hang for a few minutes when waking up from sleep and/or connecting to a new network. I noticed this only happens when I have my Exchange account added. This makes Mail completely useless in an enterprise environment.

I have also found that if running Outlook in a windows VM and mail.app at the same time that the problem is worse (more messages have no body displayed in mail.app).

Thanks much for the tip, Kbross! That KB article fixed the Exchange 2007 server and Mac Mail empty body problem for us too.

FWIW to anyone - the details of my problem were related to having Microsoft Outlook running in a virtual machine accessing the same exchange account that I was accessing with mail.app I noticed that for some emails the bodies would not display and I could not reply but only if the email was received while Outlook was running simultaneously. I examined two emails sent from the same person (one without Outlook running / one with) and determined the difference was an AVG anti-virus scan that was running as an Outlook plugin. I disabled this plugin and this fixed my problem. AVG was adding at least some addtional headers as well as a text signature. Apparently mail.app didn't like this.

I am having a similar issue using Exchange. But quitting mail and relaunching it seems to work for me also.

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Found a good workaround.

1. Select message.

2. hit 'delete'

3. hit 'command-z'

When the message comes back, you can see the body.

I found this works for me, as 'most' messages arrive with no body. This has been going on for many months now, and is very infuriating. I 'use' to be able to close mail, then reopen it, where the body was then there fine, but, that doesn't seem to be the case every time now. The above does seem to work...deleting then 'Command-z'...but when you have hundreds of e-mails, it is very time consuming, and really....one shouldn't have to go through all that to read their e-mail!