[SC-Help] Re: ******* Outlook users please read ********

[Steven Underwood]

"Kenneth Loafman" <loafman at spamcop.net> wrote in message 
news:dfd6u4pb7pm25qpu8b27s3qa0lh81rkiv3 at 4ax.com...

> In my previous life I worked in Electronic Discovery and we came up with a
> solution for this... sort the Received lines by date and time.  It's a bit
> of a PITA, but it works since you can't receive email before its sent you
> know when the last send happened and you can trace back from there.
>
> As to the missing headers, there's no solution for that.
>
> This problem occurred for us in late 2004, so its not a new issue.
>
> ...Ken

Problem with that is there are forged headers at play which may end up 
between the valid headers when doing any sort of resorting on the data after 
the fact.  Headers need to be placed there by the servers that touch the 
message and then accurately transfer all that data to the next step.

If you know all headers are valid and have valid timestamps (nobody's clock 
is off) your method will work, but should be unnecessary if all programs 
play by the rules (RFC's).