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**Gary Smith**

Poprivet wrote:
wrote:

I am in a dispute over the ownership of a website. To this end I have
an email from the seller which says the sale was complete. Is it
possible for an expert to legally verify that an email is from the
person it came from.

I will use any testimony from the expert to proove ownership.

Thanks, Simon

Not really. That's why some people use certificates; to prove they're who
they say they are.
You can parse the email's headers back to the oiginating ISP, but from
there it takes legal action to get the actualy ID of the machine it came
from, account owner, etc etc..

It's even worse than that. If the email is on your own system, there's no
way to prove that it hasn't been altered. Email is completely worthless
as evidence unless it's under the control of a disinterested third party.

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Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio