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How could I verify the authenticity of a forwarded email.
Hello,
Im trying to figure out how i could verify the authenticity of an email which was forwarded to me.
Example: John says he sent an email to Mary. Mary swears that she has never received this email. John has forwarded the original sent email to his friend Frank. Frank has forwarded me the email and asked me to find evidence that the original email is authentic.
How could i do this?
Im trying to figure out how i could verify the authenticity of an email which was forwarded to me.
Example: John says he sent an email to Mary. Mary swears that she has never received this email. John has forwarded the original sent email to his friend Frank. Frank has forwarded me the email and asked me to find evidence that the original email is authentic.
How could i do this?
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It was sent from a hotmail account. Is there anything that hotmail stamps in the headers to show that the email is real?
By combining server log files with message headers you are able to establish an accurate audit trail of the message as it moves from the sender's desktop to your receivers inbox.
Without independant "server logs" and "server headers" you can not verify the messages was actually sent at the time it was stated as being sent.