Phantom emails?

I have gotten afew emails with no content,showing really old dates,one today said it was from 1969.They also won't delete,I have to delete and redo my email account. Any ideas?

I have also had the same problem on my 3GS since upgrading to 4.0 software. I asked at the apple store and the guy at the genius bar told me that it is a carrier software issue. At the store we upgraded my software using iTunes, as usual. It worked until yesterday when I received two emails from 1969, when I exit mail and open it again, the emails were from 2000, no content, no sender and cannot be deleted.
I have since tried to update my software but there seems to be no update available. The only way I can fix this is by plugging my iPhone into my macbook, as the email is always available and normal on my computer. This is an annoying problem as receiving my email while I'm out and about without my laptop are kind of the reason I got a smart phone in the first place....
Software fixes would be appreciated, Apple.

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