Blank email body in Mac Mail

Both my wife and I are using Mac Mail 4.5 on Snow Leopard 10.6. We have both started to see the occasional blank email, i.e. all the headers appear as normal, but the body of the email is completely blank.
I have one recently that that was a receipt from a Paypal purchase (i.e. someone I receive emails from without problem all the time) that was blank. Bizarre. If I go to View > Message > Raw source, I can see the content of the message in plain text. If I go back in Time Machine all the way back to the day it arrived, it's still blank.
For my wife, her most recent blank email is one that she herself sent! Trying the View Raw Source trick doesn't work for her.
Whats' going on here?
We've repaired permissions, rebuilt mailboxes... but to no avail.
Any help gratefully received - we can't operate business with blank emails!
G

Hi,
is is possible, - link is below. Works on Yosemite, btw.
http://www.mihalick.us/how-to-highlight-text-in-yellow-using-apple-mail/

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