[Tfug] Slightly OT: Got a weird one regarding EMail logs and ISPs.

[Choprboy]

On Tuesday 23 June 2009 00:41, Brian Murphy wrote:
> Your friend's legal team should be in contact with MSN and Cox ASAP so
> that they preserve the mail logs from that day.

There is more necessary to it than that. In order to show that an email is 
valid, there need to be two cooberating pieces of evidence:
1) The email with full headers claiming the sender/intermediates/recipients 
that handled the message.
2) The email server logs (or at the very least the sender's or receiver's 
server logs), duly sworn to, cooberating the email transit time and size.

With out both of those, a 'printout' of a headerless email produced as 
evidence might as well be piece of paper typed up outside the courtroom 
minutes before the start of the trial. Any defense lawyer that would accept 
such a thing, presented as evidence, ought to be thrown out on the street for 
falling to challenge the authenticity. The printout is nothing better than 
one party's testimony, at best, it does not establish fact.