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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 Supported
100% file Mailbox text, 1st line "From jsq@cs.utexas.edu Fri Dec 28 20:11:33 1990", ASCII text default
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100% detectItEasy Format: plain text[LF] default (weak)
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