Cannot format the node body to send by email

I have struggled for days trying to use message_notify with rules to send emails from og group content. I can use arguments to get the node title, author, url, etc. But getting the node body to appear and be properly formatted seems impossible.

If message_notify sends the email because a new node is created and that node is published, all works well. But when I try sending an email with rules using the same node the node body all runs together and has no formatting. In addition, images embedded in the text are stripped out.

I am able to use [message:field-message-rendered-body:value] to send the text of the node, if I first set its value in the rule. But if I try to set the format for that token to Full HTML, all formatting is lost. I cannot get the node body with [message:field-message-group-ref:body:value].

So, how do you get the node body into the email when you use rules?