iPhone Email has Spotlight Bug

According to AppleInsider, the act of deleting an email within iPhone OS 3.0 isn’t enough to destroy its contents. Credited with being discovered by Cult of Mac, even after emptying the Mail application’s trash, the message and all of its contents are still accessible through the phone’s Spotlight search feature.

Writes AppleInsider, “To test the flaw, delete a message within the iPhone’s Mail software. Remove it from the trash, and check your mail server to ensure it’s erased. Then, search for the subject line of the message in Spotlight, where, in many cases, the entire message can still be read. While some reports allege both IMAP and POP accounts are affected, a number of AppleInsider readers have commented that IMAP accounts are in fact not vulnerable to the Spotlight bug.”