I am not having an affair, my iPhone cheated on me!

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When cornered by their wife, men sometimes say the most ridiculous things in order to wiggle out of trouble. However, blaming your iPhone for giving the impression you are having an affair has to rate as one of the best excuses ever.

According to a in the Apple discussion forums a lady called Susan became suspicious of her husband in the infidelity department. Looking through his stuff, she claims that she "took my husband's i-phone and found a raunchy picture of him attached to an e-mail to a woman in his sent e-mail file (a Yahoo account)."

OK, well, fair enough. Sounds pretty damning evidence of wring doing to me. That's what Susan thought, until her husband sought to confuse her by blaming the iPhone. "When I approached him about this (I think that he is cheating on me) he admitted that he took the picture" Susan says, adding "but says that he never sent it to anyone."

So, we have a man taking a photo of his privates and not sending them via email to a woman who appears to have received it anyway? Still sounds a hard excuse to swallow. So how does the husband explain the evidence? Could he be suggesting that his and did the dirty deed? Maybe the penguins attacked and allowed someone to access his iPhone and send the picture?

None of the above. What he actually did was tell his wife that he went to the Genius Bar at the local Apple Store who told him that it was an iPhone glitch. According to the forum posting the Apple Store staff said that "photos sometimes automatically attach themselves to an e-mail address and appear in the sent folder, even though no e-mail was ever sent."

ROFL!

Susan finishes her post by asking if "anyone ever heard of this happening? The future of my marriage depends on this answer!"

I hope you are sitting down Susan, here's the answer. No, I have not heard of this happening and, to be honest, it sounds almost impossible from a practical perspective. However, I have heard of husbands coming up with the most fantastic of excuses to explain why they are not having an affair even though the evidence would strongly suggest otherwise. Draw your own conclusions.

Dani AI

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This reads as a classic “too neat an excuse” story — ’s sceptical take is reasonable — but the thread lacked the technical detail that helps separate an honest bug from something done by a person or another device. iOS Mail does not secretly invent outgoing messages: which Sent mailbox is used (server vs. local) is configurable in iOS, and Mail’s mailbox choices and syncing behaviour are a common source of confusion. (macworld.com)

How a Sent copy ends up on the server is the key. Sending is handled by SMTP while storing a copy in “Sent” is typically a separate IMAP operation (APPEND); client and server implementations vary, and non‑standard behaviours can make a draft, failed send, or client/server sync look like a sent message. RFCs and community discussions explain the APPEND mechanism and why copies can appear even when a user thinks they never pressed Send. (datatracker.ietf.org)

Investigation checklist (forensically useful steps):

  • View the raw/“full” headers for the item in the Yahoo Sent folder and read the Received: lines (these show which MTAs handled the message and timestamps). (th.help.yahoo.com)
  • Check Yahoo Account → Recent Activity / Current sign‑ins for unusual devices or locations; look for other devices that might have sent the message. (help.yahoo.com)
  • Compare the Sent message’s timestamps, Message‑ID and any X‑headers with logs from other devices (desktop mail clients, webmail) and note whether the message has DKIM/SPF results.
  • If proof is required, ask the mail provider for server logs or engage a forensic examiner; raw headers plus server logs are what prove origin/delivery. (emailslegal.com)

Bottom line: a spontaneous “iPhone did it” is very unlikely technically; more plausible are another device/webmail action, a misconfigured client, or an account access event (retail‑service misconfiguration has caused message routing problems in other contexts). Clear proof requires headers and provider logs rather than a verbal “Genius Bar said it was a glitch.” (appleinsider.com)

EddieC 0 Posting Whiz in Training

Sorry it took me so long, but I just visited www.happygeek.com for the first time. You have it linking back to DanWeb, you cheeky devil!!!!

happygeek 2,411 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster

Hi Eddie, happygeek.com is my 'this is what I do' page and acts as a central depository for work published online at various other places, including DaniWeb. By listing news stories and columns etc with a brief para and a link to the original source, people who only know of me from my print work can see what I am up to online - and the traffic all ends up with the original publisher as that is where the full story is. Hopefully everyone wins :)

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