> Bob Elzer wrote: >> To show how email can be forged, you friend should create an email from >> the >> bad guy, confessing to the forged email, and saying he's sorry. Here's links on how to configure your Linux mailer for Gmail SMTP gateway: Send Mail Postfix through Gmail's SMTP on a Ubuntu LTS Server www.marksanborn.net/linux/send-mail-postfix-through-gmails-smtp-on-a-ubuntu-lts-server/ Lifehacker - How to use Gmail as your SMTP server - Email apps lifehacker.com/.../how-to-use-gmail-as-your-smtp-server-111166.php Linux Home Automation - Sendmail/Gmail Fedora www.linuxha.com/other/sendmail/gmail.html Then: # sudo bash # cat boguscourt.txt | sendmail -f badguy@liars.org myaddress@goodguy.com # tail /var/log/maillog |grep liars.org >> -----Original Message----- >> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Jim >> March >> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 10:33 PM >> To: Tucson Free Unix Group; Main PLUG discussion list >> Subject: Slightly OT: Got a weird one regarding EMail logs and ISPs. >> >> Not exactly Linux but then not exactly "not" either. >> >> Got a friend who got involved in a business deal that went south, now he's >> suing. The guy he's suing sounds like a real winner and is claiming >> there's >> a couple grand worth of expenses my friend never agreed to. Except the >> guy >> we'll call "the bad guy" for now has what he claims is an EMail in which >> my >> friend authorized the expenses in question. >> >> The bad guy has produced this EMail for a court. It doesn't include >> header >> data - just the timestamp received at COX (late Jan. 2009), to/from info >> (allegedly from my friend's MSN.COM account to their COX.NET account), >> subject line and text. >> >> He says the EMail in question is fake, he never sent it. >> >> They could have easily faked it any number of ways, but the header data >> would of course be much harder to fake, and these guys ain't all that >> smart. >> Right now he's telling the court it's a fake EMail (under oath on his >> part, >> sworn declaration) and he's doing a request for document production for >> the >> header data. >> >> Now assuming he's telling me the truth and he never sent that, I would >> assume the other side will claim they purged their electronic copy so they >> have no header data, if they're at all smart. >> >> Can he ask his paid ISP (msn bleah on a dial-up account paid to them >> gag) to show that they have no log for his outgoing mail of that subject >> line at that time, and that there would be one if the message is fake? I >> would guess that as an MSN customer he doesn't need a court order to track >> data he allegedly sent? OR if MSN doesn't keep such logs, is it possible >> COX does and he gets a court order for their logs, would COX keep that >> kind >> of thing? >> >> Any other thoughts on cracking this? >> >> I'm BCCing the friend... >> >> Jim >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- (503)754-4452 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LisaKachold http://tinyurl.com/44zfgx http://www.obnosis.com/motivation/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss