Anyone having mail syncing problems? (01/01/1970)

I had it happen, and I reset all network connections and they went away.
Kinda weird.

Same here too. I am using a 3G (not iPhone 4 or 3GS) in Hong Kong.

The strange emails disappear and re-appear randomly; I've not been able to spot a specific reason/trend/solution.

I had the email on Wednesday of last week and plugged my phone in to charge the battery. The email disappeared but now my computer is acting strange, I am unable to send pictures and it has slowed down considerably.
I have iantivirus installed but it has not located this bug.
Any ideas on how to get rid of it??

I have the exact same problem and its REALLY FRUSTRATING! I saw an apple genius yesterday and they explained it is a bug and the only way to get around it is to go into each folder i have set up in my mailbox (Trash and any others you have set up) and download all of the messages onto the iPhone. This works buts its still annoying that every time i want to check an email I have to make sure all the folders have downloaded the messages into each of the folders i have set up.

So for example if I drop an email into my saved folder on my mac, when I come to my iPhone i cant see the new message that’s arrived until i go into the saved folder on my iphone and download that message that I moved there on my mac...

Sort this out Apple - its a very frustrating bug!!!

First try removing your accounts from the iPhone, then resetting network settings, then add your email accounts back on.

If that doesn't work, try restoring as new iPhone and see if this clears the phantom emails.

Was there ever a fix (or workaroud for this)?

It just started to happen with me today and says I have 4294967295 unread mails in one of my inboxes (standard POP account).

There's just one not open in the inbox (No Sender)(No Subject) date 01/01/1970. Cant open it, cant delete it.

I've deleted the Mailbox, re-booted (hard re-set) and added the mailbox back in. I've done this a couple of times and still I get the same issue.

Dont really want to do a full restore as it takes so long to put my music back on it.

I'm using 4.1.

I'm just trying to re-set network settings to see if that works, but by the looks of this thread it's been tried before with no luck

Re-setting network settings didn't work

I've sent a bug report to apple, but my guess is that this is an indexing problem

If I have 1 item unopen in the inbox it shows that there are No unopen e-mails. If I open the last remaining unopen one then it displays this large number 4294967295 as the number of unopen items

I've seen this sort of thing before back in my days as a developer (usually when you try to access a non existent element of an array of some sort or go beyond it's bounds in some way).

The only problem is I can't see how to really clear out the mailbox. Deleting it, re-booting and then re-entering it does not really clear down the data so I think I'm still left with what's in the data cache.

I guess "Erase All Content and Settings" would do it, but I'm really not keen on doing yet another full re-set.

May live with it until 4.2, see if they come up with a fix, if not try a full restore.

Any ideas?

I am having this same problem. I have tried deleting the mail account and putting it back on. I have tried syncing straight from outlook on my computer instead of over the air. No luck. I hope this is a bug they are working on and will fix soon.