Some iOS users to receive ghost emails from 1st January 1970

Bug makes iPhones receive emails 'zombies' dated 1970

Some iPhone owners have received emails with peculiar dates, such as January 1, 1970. The messages are probably the result of a bug in the iOS email app, since the first email was sent only in 1971 - a year after the alleged messages. Moreover, at that time Apple did not even have e-mail servers iCloud or Me.com service.

The most curious is that the same day had already caused controversy with the manufacturer devices. A few weeks ago, a flaw in the iPhone calendar was discovered in the smartphone could catch through to have the day set the official application agenda.

It is not known what causes the bug, but when failure comes, the person receives an email with no subject in without sender or without any content. To complete, when the user tries to delete, cannot finish the action. According to reports on social networks, the problem happened to some people who exchanged the phone's time zone. However, the procedure is not a rule to receive the "last message".

The flaw apparently causes no problem. The initial impression is that the Mail app for iOS reset the date to the equivalent of zero in UNIX time scale, which is the conversion of days to billions of seconds. For example, the current date is about 1.45 billion. The ground zero that would be just the 1st of January 1970.

Who received these emails and delete them want to do a hard reset on the iPhone, according to reports of users on the web. i.e., restart the phone by pressing the buttons on and Home simultaneously for a few seconds. According to Internet users, the action causes messages with failure are excluded from the Mail inbox.