Digital forensics – a deeper look into email analysis

Computer Forensics is the fundamental study of evidences or tracing evidences of a prior committed fraud/ crime that is crucial to hold charges against the accused and be presentable in front of the eyes of law. In the present paper the authors have given a brief overview on computer forensics which will throw light upon what we understand by computer forensics and the various analysis procedures we implement to trace evidences and try to successfully recover any fragments of data without further loss. Digital forensics has a massive scope in the coming days. In the present studies the authors have tried to give basic overview of digital forensics and it application in e-mail analysis. Some experimental data also presented in the same paper.