Mail messages stripped of text when received by others

I have been having problems with Apple mail for about a year now. On occasion I have been called by my boss informing me that I have sent out emails with just attachments and no message. Problem is, I sent a message with the email but the text was stripped for some reason. I have the program set to bcc a message to myself so that I can see what I am sending out and can retreive it from the server if anything goes wrong. These messages are fine.
Is mail encoding the message so that it is unreadable by Entourage or Outlook? That is the program that at least one of the recipients is using.
Does anyone know what could be going on?

Is mail encoding the message so that it is unreadable by Entourage or Outlook? That is the program that at least one of the recipients is using.
Does anyone know what could be going on?
Sort of. Outlook is a crappy email client unless it is sending and receiving to/from itself. It even has trouble with Microsoft's own products like Entourage, Outlook for Mac and Outlook Express (Windows version).
Depending on the version of Outlook and the Exchange server that is hosting it, various problems will occur.
If you are sending to a known bad version, use Plain text and set the attachments to always at end. Another thing noted as helpful is setting the attachment to view as icon (right-click on it and choose view as icon).
Changing the font at the beginning of the message is known to work sometimes. Recently, some people have found that adding an empty plain text document as an attachment helps with some versions of Outlook.
Despite that fact that Outlook does not conform to email standards, Apple has tried to keep up with the various idiosyncrasies in Outlook, but Microsoft tends to stay one step ahead with new bugs.

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If you can't send or receive messages on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204065
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Go to Settings > FaceTime, tap your Apple ID, then tap Sign Out.
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http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201422
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