@Felim_Doyle wrote:
I can go back through my e-mails to see when the first e-mail [that I have retained] was sent / received but it isn't as accurate and not perhaps as legally acceptable as a means of proving the age of the e-mail addresses.
To be honest, you say you are being asked to provide evidence that your e-mail addresses have been registered and in use for several years.
In that case then surely being able to supply examples of the emails you sent and received together with copies of the associated email headers (also known as "source") is as good a way as any of showing the email accounts have been in use.
The fact an email address was registered in, say 2010, does not prove that you were using it in 2010. I must admit that in the past I have opened email accounts and for various reasons never actually used them to any great extent.
Just to explain, email headers or source for your incoming emails list the various steps that an email took from the moment the sender pressed the "send" button to the time it popped into your inbox. Ok, I accept that any document can be faked but I'm not sure you can get anything else.
To view and copy the email headers / source for any incoming email:
- sign into your VM Webmail account
- open an email you have received
- follow these steps

When you click on "View source" a window will open and you will be able to copy and paste the full document into any text file (such as MS Word) you like.
Whether the agency which is asking you to provide this information will understand how email headers work is another matter of course but they, along with copies of the emails themselves are evidence the account was in use 😉
Coenoby
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