Can't see email message content

Hello,

this may help:

1. Stop your Mail application from the menu: "Mail > Quit Mail"
2. Open the Finder and click: "go > go to folder"
3. Enter the following into the box, including the ~ (I recommend you simply copy-paste) ~/library/mail/v2/maildata/
4. Click [go] and in the Finder-window that opens, delete all files starting with the word envelope
5. Once deleted, restart your OS X via " > Restart"

See this screenshot for visual aid:

When you open your mail next, it will prompt to import mails. Agree with this. Now your mails ought to have their content back.

Let me be a bit more clear.

The body of the message is there - but it only appears if I open the email. But when I hover over the email header, there is no right panel that displays the body of the message.

I am not sure if I explained this properly.

Jg

This is probably what's going on. Please find the bar on the right and drag it back to the left with your mousecursor:

That did it - thank you.

I came here with the same problem. Solved now 🙂 Cheers!

You sir (or madam?) are a genius.

Gahh cant tell you how much this helped.

Cheers.

This didn't help me and I'm in panic mode. It just still shows a large gray area...moving that arrow only makes it bigger/smaller.

This didn't help me. All it does for me is move the 'grey area' bigger/smaller. Like...I can't see that little 'dot' as you've kindly shown in your screen shot? It just increases or reduces my big grey area where my messages used to show. Frustrating!

I have this problem as well. I can see all of my mail headers in the menu column on the left, but when I open (click-on) the mail header the email I open has no content in the body, or "grey area". Dragging the boundary, or resizing has no effect at all.

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