Geek question, can you tell when an e-mail chain has been modified?

[Fastguy]

Let's say you are going back and forth with some people through e-mail with "reply all". Can you tell if someone goes in and modifies one of the prior entries?

[mikeg826]

not that i know of, if you were on all the emails, you could do a stare and compare on them chronologically?

[Fastguy]

I was having a conversation with someone that was trying to use an e-mail chain as evidence that someone said something. I told her you can easily go in and type whatever the hell you wanted under the other person's last reply and then demonstrated it. It stems from a conversation that went back and forth ten times that I had been CC'd on. Someone was trying to trasnfer an account to my office and was having difficulty using a website and kept sending screen shots.
At one point, I chimed in and said, "the reason why you are having difficulty is because you are missing a zero in the 10 digit number, there are four, not three zeroes."
This chain continued on and then I looked back at the whole thing a few days later. The message showing the wrong number and my subsequent message were deleted from the chain.
I obviously still have my deleted e-mails, but I was just curious how people try to use e-mail as evidence when its so easily manipulated.

[NEVRL8T]

I was having a conversation with someone that was trying to use an e-mail chain as evidence that someone said something. I told her you can easily go in and type whatever the hell you wanted under the other person's last reply and then demonstrated it. It stems from a conversation that went back and forth ten times that I had been CC'd on. Someone was trying to trasnfer an account to my office and was having difficulty using a website and kept sending screen shots.
At one point, I chimed in and said, "the reason why you are having difficulty is because you are missing a zero in the 10 digit number, there are four, not three zeroes."
This chain continued on and then I looked back at the whole thing a few days later. The message showing the wrong number and my subsequent message were deleted from the chain.
I obviously still have my deleted e-mails, but I was just curious how people try to use e-mail as evidence when its so easily manipulated.

I use Windows Live, if it is like ours, then yes, you can change it in Windows Live but the entire chain is saved on our server. THAT cannot be changed by me or anyone else here. Since we do not own the server and have no admin rights to it, it can be retrieved through our supplier.

[lander]

I use Windows Live, if it is like ours, then yes, you can change it in Windows Live but the entire chain is saved on our server. THAT cannot be changed by me or anyone else here. Since we do not own the server and have no admin rights to it, it can be retrieved through our supplier.

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We don't even look at email on a users system when issues like this come up. We go straight to the server and verify sent/received from the server logs.

[Fastguy]

We own the server.

[NEVRL8T]

We own the server.

But who has the admin rights to change something on the server. Surely, not everyone has that access.

[Fastguy]

Its a small company, only 8 of us, my buddy that owns the company has access.

Since this thread is boring, here is a pic of Snoop Dogg being attacked by Skully.


http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b71/saltysearay/snoop.jpg

[mrvette]

I get some emails forwarded as part of a chain, and many of them have those annoying blue vertical bars of varying counts down the left margin, look about 1/2" apart on my monitor....WTF is with that?? looks like something AOL would do maybe?? what's the point??

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