Putting a date to an email.
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I have received hard copies of several emails, the same that i am suspicious of their authenticity. I there any way can electronically date those same emails. In my limited IT skills I understand that by clicking on properties of the original email, that will show the date the email was drafted, but would that also apply if the email went through several senders?
Generally speaking...
If they've been forwarded on from one person to the next in a long chain, all you're going to see in any email headers is the trail from the last person to send that email, between their email client, to their outbound server to your inbound server via any intermediaries.
e.g. if person A sends email to person B who sends to person C who forwards it onto you directly, in the headers you'll only see the trail from Person C sending the email to you.
If person A sends email to person B who sends to be person C who attaches that email to a new email to send onto you, you may be able to open the attachment and look at the headers but it will only show the trail from person B to person C
Unless person B has been happily copying and pasting all headers from person A to person B into the body of the email to mark the trail before it gets to you, but if they had then you wouldn't be asking this question.
If they've been forwarded on from one person to the next in a long chain, all you're going to see in any email headers is the trail from the last person to send that email, between their email client, to their outbound server to your inbound server via any intermediaries.
e.g. if person A sends email to person B who sends to person C who forwards it onto you directly, in the headers you'll only see the trail from Person C sending the email to you.
If person A sends email to person B who sends to be person C who attaches that email to a new email to send onto you, you may be able to open the attachment and look at the headers but it will only show the trail from person B to person C
Unless person B has been happily copying and pasting all headers from person A to person B into the body of the email to mark the trail before it gets to you, but if they had then you wouldn't be asking this question.
Wings said:
... would that also apply if the email went through several senders?
People or mail servers?Either way I'm not sure you'd get a draft timestamp of a sent mail. Perhaps just share the headers you have with any domain names scrubbed.
Edited by 768 on Saturday 4th January 08:29
eltawater said:
Generally speaking...
If they've been forwarded on from one person to the next in a long chain, all you're going to see in any email headers is the trail from the last person to send that email, between their email client, to their outbound server to your inbound server via any intermediaries.
e.g. if person A sends email to person B who sends to person C who forwards it onto you directly, in the headers you'll only see the trail from Person C sending the email to you.
If person A sends email to person B who sends to be person C who attaches that email to a new email to send onto you, you may be able to open the attachment and look at the headers but it will only show the trail from person B to person C
Unless person B has been happily copying and pasting all headers from person A to person B into the body of the email to mark the trail before it gets to you, but if they had then you wouldn't be asking this question.
^^If they've been forwarded on from one person to the next in a long chain, all you're going to see in any email headers is the trail from the last person to send that email, between their email client, to their outbound server to your inbound server via any intermediaries.
e.g. if person A sends email to person B who sends to person C who forwards it onto you directly, in the headers you'll only see the trail from Person C sending the email to you.
If person A sends email to person B who sends to be person C who attaches that email to a new email to send onto you, you may be able to open the attachment and look at the headers but it will only show the trail from person B to person C
Unless person B has been happily copying and pasting all headers from person A to person B into the body of the email to mark the trail before it gets to you, but if they had then you wouldn't be asking this question.
Pretty much this.
I think you need to be more specific what you've been sent but unless the original email(s) has been added as an attachment you're not going to see anything else.
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