Hi,

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

You should have the information from the Mail Server Logs from the mail
host/ISP.

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| Hi,
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| 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
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Hi,

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

First you have to have the email in its original digital state on your PC so
that you can access the headers.
Then if you are in the UK you have to obtain a court order against the
senders ISP ordering them to verify the source of the Email. This can only
verify the source but not the content of the email, unless the email is
stored on a server for example google. You have to pay to get the court
order and the ISP will charge a fee for providing the information.

wrote:
Hi,

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..

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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.

--
Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio

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Hi,

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