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Mailbox/MIME Entity | 1996-08-05 | 2.5 KB
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This file was processed as: Mailbox/MIME Entity (archive/mbox).
Confidence	Program	Detection	Match Type	Support
`100%`	dexvert	Newsgroup Content `(archive/news)`	magic	Supported
`100%`	dexvert	Mailbox/MIME Entity `(archive/mbox)`	magic	Supported
`100%`	dexvert	Internet Message Format `(text/imf)`	magic	Supported
`1%`	dexvert	Text File `(text/txt)`	fallback	Supported
`100%`	file	news, ASCII text	default
`100%`	checkBytes	Printable ASCII	default
`100%`	dexmagic	PrintFox/Pagefox WEAK	default
`100%`	perlTextCheck	Likely Text (Perl)	default
`100%`	siegfried	fmt/950 MIME Email (1.0)	default
`100%`	detectItEasy	Format: plain text[LF]	default (weak)
`100%`	xdgMime	message/news	default
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