Apple Mail application doesn't show message bodies

CafeTran Training wrote:

OS X (MacOS) is a great operating system, but the Apple Mail application isn't necessarily a great mail client.

Last week it stopped displaying the body of many messages. A few days later it started displaying them again, today it stopped again.

Many threads about this behaviour in the Apple Support forums.

Currently I'm evaluating Postbox (https://www.postbox-inc.com) and Airmail (http://airmailapp.com) as reliable alternatives, since they don't seem to use the built-in Preview app as a preview application for the message bodies.

Any suggestion for other good, reliable mail clients, are very welcome.


[Edited at 2016-04-15 13:04 GMT]

Tom in London wrote:

That's strange; I use Apple mail all the time and have never experienced that problem.

As a very good alternative I would highly recommend Thunderbird, which you can customise to your heart's content by installing add-ons.

PostBox is a commercial email client from a startup founded by Scott McGregor (the former Thunderbird lead engineer) and Sherman Dickman (a former Director of Product Management at Mozilla Corporation). You have to pay for any updates. It does not have an open source license, a Linux version, or support any languages other than English though there are several community-translated Language Packs. Postbox has much stricter system requirements than Thunderbird and drops support for older versions of operating systems quicker. It can import data and settings from a Thunderbird profile. Mozbackup (backup) supports it.

CafeTran Training wrote:

[BTW: Do you use IMAP or POP?