Mail Messages won't display on iphone 4

I have a .mac and a gmail account set up on my phone. I can see the messages in my inbox for all accounts but the individual emails won't display when I go to read them, the message portion of the email is blank. I can see the "from" an "to" and just the message is missing! Any thoughts?

Rebooting the phone seems to have solved this for the time being. I will let everyone know if it recurs.

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