Email Totally Blank in Mail.app

This is a totally new one on me:
Our daughter sent a totally ordinary message to my wife's account and also to mine; just a routine forwarding of a bunch of cute 'baby with puppies' pics, the ones you see all the time.
I saw them fine on my iPad, first thing in the morning, then later saw the same message in Mail.app, recognized it, didn't bother with it. Some time later, my wife on the phone with daughter, complaining that she couldn't open the message in her account.
I said it was fine in mine, she asked me to show her, so I did .....and mine was also blank! I mean, totally; no header information, nothing at all showing.
I went back and checked the iPad and, sure enough, it was fine there still. I then tried it in iCloud.com, and it also showed up fine there. I tried forwarding one of the blank ones to gmail, and it showed up blank there also.
Basically, it appears as though this message appears and seems perfectly normal in all hosts except for Mail.app, where it is simply disappeared totally. Does anyone have any insights as to what might cause this?

Can't answer the question, Michael,
But you will notice there are several references to IMAP that are common in various threads. I googled 'blank e-mails in Mac Mail' and there were loads of them.
Not a lot of help, I know, but interesting to see.
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