“but I would also insist on having the evidence of a sending server and a receiving server. That’s evidence all right.”
LOL - you want a printed sheet that says ANY server numbers and you consider that evidence ?
Gee, all we have to do is look at the “sending server” and we can stop all the Nigerian emails !
You said — “LOL - you want a printed sheet that says ANY server numbers and you consider that evidence ?”
It’s more like this is actually the server that sent a real e-mail, versus one that was made up. And you can verify that not only was it this server that sent it, but it was “that server” that received this one particular e-mail. So, it’s showing that it was actually an e-mail that was sent.
And, that’s why I said it was only a 1/2 way gesture, because it’s not satisfactory. But, it would at least be 1/2 way.
To avoid the situation in which someone takes an actual e-mail and just puts in some made up language, versus what the e-mail originally had, we can check the server information for other clues. One of those clues will be size. We can verify the size of the e-mail in bytes.
And, I’m sure that there are a list of other checks to verify things.
Regards,
Star Traveler
P.S. — If this is a student to a professor, it was all handled “in house” anyway, and then it would be much easier to check, and also much easier to verify authenticity.