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This file was processed as: Mailbox/MIME Entity
(archive/mbox).
Confidence | Program | Detection | Match Type | Support
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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
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| file
| Mailbox text, 1st line "From uucp@tic.com Sat Jun 23 14:45:48 1990", ASCII text
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| TrID
| E-Mail message (Var. 2)
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| perlTextCheck
| Likely Text (Perl)
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| detectItEasy
| Format: Plain text[LF]
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| xdgMime
| application/mbox
| default (weak)
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