E-mail messages randomly disappearing

If I select an e-mail message to read, the message is viewable for a second then the phone reverts back to the home screen. It's doing this on all of my accounts. It doesn't do this on all messages, just some. I've tried rebooting, disabling accounts, and deleting accounts, nothing works. It just started 36 hours ago.

Michael,
We had the same problem at my company just a few weeks ago. Here are some of the symptoms we experienced:
1. (Note this only happened to ONE of our email accounts--The one that receives the most emails out of any address in our company.)
2. The problem was happening on both Lion and Mountain Lion.
3. We had the same email account on multiple different systems at different times with the same "lost email" result.
4. When the email disappeared from Mail, it disappeared from Google Apps Gmail account as well.
5. Extreme amounts of confusion and frustration was ongoing.
We finally tried changing the password to our Gmail account and that became our solution. We have not experienced the problem since.
Similar to yourself, we couldn't figure out why it was Apple Mail specific and didn't seem to happen with any other third-party app.
After about a week, we even changed our password back to the original just to do a little testing after-hours. Same result. We lost every email that was in or coming in to our inbox. Needless to say we've stayed with the new password and its working well.
I would suggest heading over to your account settings ASAP to create a new password. Please let me know if that works for you! It would be very interesting to find out if this is a wide-spread problem/solution.
Blessings!
-BB

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