Printing headers for court evidence - Outlook 2003

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I have Outlook 2003, connected to Exchange Server 2003, at work.

I have both a request for information and a suggestion for the improvement
of Outlook 2003.

I'm the executor for a close friend who is going in for fairly serious
surgery today. She just updated her will, and I have the original. She forgot
to include in her will verbiage relating to her "living will", ie: that she
would never want to be kept artificially alive and delegating to me the
decision on that.

She sent me those instructions in an email. Since the email may at some
point be evidence of her wishes in court, I want to "validate" it to the
extent possible. If that eventuality should ever arise her family will fight
it (a la Terri Schiavo), which is why she's authorizing me to make the
decision. They would keep her plugged in forever no matter what.

So, I want to print the email with full headers (IP of her sending server,
route, etc.), then have a notary here certify that it's a true and accurate
copy of the original email with headers, which I still have in my inbox. I
realize I can do this in 2 parts by opening the email and using View\Options,
then copying and pasting the headers in to a separate document, but that
would look artificial and contrived.

This was very easy to do in the email client I used to use, Eudora. I could
simply instruct Eudora to view the email with full headers (which loaded the
full headers in to the top of the email body), then print it. However, it
does not appear to be possible in Outlook 2003.

After 3 hours in the help files and internet searches, both MS and google,
I've pretty much concluded that I can't do this or at least that if there is
a way to do it, it's undocumented.

(1) If any of you know of a way to do this, I'd really appreciate
step-by-step instructions.

(2) Microsoft: It should be obvious from all the corporate scandals and
prosecutions using email over the last few years that emails often end up as
evidence in court. Being able to print the email with full headers for the
purposes of evidence should be a built-in feature in Outlook. In effect it
lays a full paper-trail, validating the sender and receiver, thereby
authenticating the email. I strongly encourage you to add that feature.

Thank you,
Pat
 
PatF said:
So, I want to print the email with full headers (IP of her sending
server, route, etc.), then have a notary here certify that it's a
true and accurate copy of the original email with headers, which I
still have in my inbox. I realize I can do this in 2 parts by
opening the email and using View\Options, then copying and pasting
the headers in to a separate document, but that would look artificial
and contrived.
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There's no way to do it with Outlook, as far as I can tell. Even if you
could, though, headers are easily faked and do not provide proof of
anything.
 
you can do it only if you set a reg key before downloading the message. note
that if she works with you, there is no header. if IMAP is enabled, set up
an IMAP account in OE and download it and capture the full source that way.
 
Diane,

Thank you very much. She works for an outside company, so this should work.
I appreciate it. You're the only one to give me some hope on this after the
post here and an extensive google search.

Pat
 
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