Mail message vanishes before my eyes

I received a long message today, with an attachment. I had barely read it when it disappeared.  I looked for it all over and found it in the Cloud but as soon as I saw it there, it vanished again.
Anybody understand this????

Look for it in the iCloud junk mail folder. If it's not there, you've fallen victim to a bug that others have reported. I don't know of anything you can do other than to contact iCloud support.

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