My understanding is email is "legal" or usable in a court of law ... if you can show an uninterrupted chain of custody ... IE: the sender has a copy of the email, the receiver has a copy of the same unchanged email, and both email servers logs show the email being delivered, as well as the headers in the sent, received, and logs are consistent. If all is true most courts will allow the email evidence. When I was a consultant we had a job to figure this out ... this was a case about sexual harassment. After pulling all the logs and email (this was all internal email Exchange 5.5) the court allowed the evidence.
Christopher Checca Packard Transport, Inc. IT Department 24021 South Municipal Dr PO Box 380 Channahon, IL. 60410 815 467 9260 815 467 6939 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.packardtransport.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dale McDiarmid Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] Sender Auth versus Email as legal document The thread (Non-existent user able to send to localhost) brings up an interesting point. If anyone who claims to be in my domain (an existing user, or not) can send an email to anyone in my domain without being authenticated (by using my smtp server), then conceivably, a malicious stranger could spoof a message from the CEO of the company and send a message to the entire company that could have legal consequences. How then, can email be used as a legal document. Would not this limit any attempts to take any legal action based on an email? It seems any email sent from any user in my domain to anyone in my domain cannot be viewed as 100% authentic. Any ideas? Thx, D. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
