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> It isn't a legal record, but people treat it that way

No they don't.

It's evidence and is treated as such, including all the proper oversight regarding chain of custody and regulatory capture/compliance. All evidence can be faked or forged, like testimony, physical evidence, or even legal "records" (what is that supposed to even mean, anyway? Did you know contracts are also evidence? And that they can be forged?)

That's why we have judges, juries and all sorts of messy legal constructs like "truth" and "perjury" and "oath".

None of this stuff is deterministic in the real world and it's a lot more complicated than some guy with a beard producing e-mails from a server in the closet.