Mail: no content in messages in one folder - disappeared

I have one mailbox that lists the mail in the folder but has no content in the text.
Text encoding is automatic - no idea why only one mailbox has this problem.
I can see the mail, the subject line, to and from, and if I open a message it's blank.
If I try 're-send' the message part is also blank.
I MAY (not sure if I was in this mailbox at time) have done an accidental 're-build' last week. But nothing else.
Anyone any ideas?

I'm having the same or similar issue. New erase and install off of 10.5.1 dvd on to Aluminum G4 Powerbook. Previous to that I copied all old mail to our NAS. Updated 10.5.1 to 10.5.3, setup the Mail program and it went to our mail server (1and1) and downloaded all the messages that were on it. Seemed to work fine, it downloaded a few weeks of old mail and they were listed as new messages in the inbox of Mail - all good so far. Then I used the Import menu item to import all the old messages I'd placed on the NAS. So using the import Mac OS X Mail selection, I got busy importing thousands of old messages. Again it looked like everything was working correctly.
However, the content of the messages on the main Inbox - the top inbox that initially downloaded the mail off the server - was missing. The details still showed the messages as having content such as attachments, but nothing showed up on the lower pane of the Mail program, like your issue.
Long story a little bit longer, I also noticed that in the newly imported mail from the NAS there was the original Inbox from my old version of mail that was doubling up what was just downloaded on the new install.. hmmm.. so looking in there, the same messages were listed as in the top level Inbox and they had content. Seems like something is screwing up, but I found the content of my old messages in the imported mail.

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Well your code is unreadable because you didn't post it properly, but I'd guess you've fallen into the old multiple-delete trap in a new way. It's like this:
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That's just a guess, I didn't have the patience to read that ugly unformatted code. There are two ways to do the multiple delete properly, if that's actually your problem: (1) run the loop upwards from 0 and always delete message 0; (2) run the loop downwards from N-1 to 0 and delete message i.

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I run three email accounts into my Mail (4.2), including mobile me and a University (IMAP) account, on a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard. Recently, and for no good reason I can see, the emails from the Uni account have started only to show in the inbox when new. Once opened, they disappear, and can't be seen anywhere, unless I search for them, in which case thay all appear again. Ditto for sent, deleted, and draft emails with the Uni tag.
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Another was to make the folders smaller, so I moved a lot of messages (literally thousands, bordering on ten thousand or more) to the "Local Folders" section - no help there either.
The article in the answer from finitarry suggested using a tool to break the folder into 500 message chunks (so I could look for the corruption). Perhaps I misread the article, but it seemed to be looking for the raw files - hence my listing of the file structure for my profile. I have no idea which one to use for that. Editing text files - not a problem, and I do have an editor that will handle large files (vim).
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I solved this awkwardly (but only for seeing the mail body- not for retrieving attachments)
, but it may help others.
i have messages in inbox with wdseml type.
i have re-indexed after deleting global-messages sqlite, and they still can't be found.
I also re-installed (31) and re-indexed today.
Originally i noticed the problem when i was searching and when i clicked on a message to view it the content was missing even though the subject was found.
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I have been accessing my email account from my MacBook Pro (13" unibody 5,5) running Snow Leopard up to 10.6.4. The problem is that when I move a message from one folder to another, while the move appears to take place properly as seen on the client, when I check on the server (through MS Office on my (Windows) office computer, via Remote Desktop, or by Web Access email) it turns out that the message has only been copied, and still shows up in the original folder.
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I'm working with the same system... both computers (MAC and PC) are logged into the same Exchange account, and I use webaccess also.
Is Your mailbox created in the option of "in my mac" or in the account itself?
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