Mac Mail - Message Body Not Displayed

You can also drag and drop caches folder from system library , and caches , cookies folder from user library to the desktop , restart the machine and open the mail application .

And another method , delete the IMAP account and configure it once again , mails will download from the server .

Restarting the computer, quitting and restarting mail, turning WiFi off and back on all help occasionally, but not always. Sometimes, but not always, if you double click to open the message in a new window, the text body will display. Also, if you click "reply" for the message to open in a new window, the message will display although any links will not work. I finally fixed the problem by re-installing the operating system. Now, my mail works fine. Unfortunately, once I had reinstalled the operating system, I had to re-install my gnucash financial software, and now it will not open at all... :-(

I finally managed to solve the problem of missing body text by re-installing the operating system. That also solved other problems like web pages being very slow to load or not loading at all, apps/files being very slow to open, locking up, etc. I did have to re-enter a few passwords but in general, i was very happy with how painlessly I was able to accomplish the re-install. The only problem I had was that after re-install, my Gnucash app would not open. When I tried to re-install the Gnucash, I kept getting an error message and could not get it to install at all. Lucky for me, I also have a Windows laptop, and Gnucash works fine there. It's been a few weeks, and my MacBook Pro is still working like new again.

I have the same troublesome issue since I upgraded to High Sierra. Clearly there is a software bug involved. This is a something that Apple needs to fix, rather than customers being obliged to attempt time-consuming patchwork solutions that don't work for everyone.

Uninstalling Trusteer Rapport solved my problem. I couldn't see emails and couldn't see safari web pages. Both working fine now.

I finally solved the problem. I noticed the problem was only with my yahoo account not gmail or other accounts. So all i did was force quit mail. Went to system preferences > internet accounts and deleted my yahoo account and then added it again.

My Problem solved. 🙂

If you can see the Headers, you are not having a problem sending or getting emails, or having them organized in mailboxes.

You are having a problem with how Mail is Presenting your emails to you.

This article describes how folks who re-designed Mail expected it to work for you. Note that this is different from how it worked since the first version of Mac OS X, and there are multiple ways to screw it up so that the information you care about is not displayed properly, starting with "Conversations".

Mac Basics: Use Mail on your Mac - Apple Support

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Quit Mail. Force quit if necessary.

Back up all data before proceeding.

Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:

~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData

Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select

Go ▹ Go to Folder

from the menu bar. Paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V, then press return.

A folder window will open. Inside it there should be files with names as follows:

Envelope Index

ExternalUpdates.storedata

Move those files to the Desktop, leaving the window open. Other files in the folder may have longer names that begin as above. Move those files, if any, to the Trash.

Relaunch Mail. It should prompt you to re-import your messages. You may get a warning that the index is damaged and that Mail has to quit. Click OK. Typically, the process takes a few minutes, but it may take hours if you have gigantic mailboxes. In that case, you may be able to speed things up by temporarily adding your home folder to the Privacy list in the Spotlight preference pane. Remove it when Mail has finished importing.

Test. If Mail now works as expected, you can delete the files you moved to the Desktop. Otherwise, post your results.

Linc

I've tried what you suggested but I continue to have the same issue. I'm getting the emails but with the body basically empty.

Take a screenshot:

Use command-Shift-4, press spacebar, then click the window you want to capture. default is to save to the desktop as "Screen Shot 2015... date& time"

Post the screenshot:

On the forums, start a reply, then click the little camera icon in the header. navigate to the Screen Shot you just saved, and select to post in your message. Click "Reply" button.

Try setting Classic Layout in Mail Preferences:

If Classic Layout gets you the message bodies, then in "new" layout perhaps you may have swiped the edges of one or more of the message areas too far to the side of the screen. Check carefully to see if there is an adjustment control along one edge of that viewer pane.

Long-shot: Have you set the font to 'white' bac any chance?

C.

Still no luck 😟

No, I haven't changed the colors.