IOS 6 - Ghost email notifications

Hi
I have a new iphone 5 with ios 6 etc.
Occasionally I get a mail notification in the lock screen that:
a) shows a preview even though previews are switched off, and
b) Is for a mail that doesnt appear in my inbox.
I'm not sure if these relate to old emails or new ones that are being downloaded and then deleted or something. It's very strange...
Some emails come in with no preview and appear ok.
Anyone else seeing this?
Cheers
Mark

That is a hard one, because I know there was a bug somewhere back in the day where people would get emails with no subject or body that the date received showed dec 31st 1969 and it was iOS specific. Usually though I would say for some reason your ESP is sending a bad email and the phone doesn't realize that nothing really showed up in your inbox so it still pushed the notification.
However my gut instinct is that this is an iOS but with a particular ESP. Whom is your email service provider? Have you tried any troubleshooting at all (as in remove and readd the email account?)
Here is a list of things you can try
remove and readd the email account
turn off your notifications and then toggle them back on
even resetting your network settings might do it
of course resetting the phone may also fix this issue
I would even go as far as to restore the device to see if the software is gliched that controls the notifications.

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