New iPhone search finds deleted e-mails

OS 3 works fine but there's one thing that surprised me. The new search function does its job a little bit too good. You can find e-mails that you deleted weeks ago even if you cleared the recycle bin.

Interested that someone else is having the same issue.
Posted this in another thread. I'll wait to see if someone finds a way to delete them completely
Sounds like there's been an ongoing issue with the delete function in mail that spotlight has shown up, and the fault lies with that rather than 3.0.
+In 3.0 when I do a search included in the search are past emails that were deleted ages ago. Actually there's no emails on the iPhone at all at the moment. The emails date back to mid November last year when Apple replaced the previous iPhone.+
+Some of those found open up fully while others open to a blank window. All have a delete option.+
+No emails are in the trash or any other of the mail folders.+
+These are POP email and none remain on the server. They are on the Mac that the iPhone syncs to however.+
+The question is where are these emails coming from if they've been deleted?+
+Is the same happening to anyone else?+

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