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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
| Supported |
| 100%
| file
| Mailbox text, 1st line "From housed@infmx.informix.com Tue Dec 18 22:02:54 1990", ASCII text
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| TrID
| E-Mail message (Var. 2)
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| 100%
| checkBytes
| Printable ASCII
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| 100%
| perlTextCheck
| Likely Text (Perl)
| default
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| 100%
| siegfried
| x-fmt/111 Plain Text File
| default
| |
| 100%
| detectItEasy
| Format: plain text[LF]
| default (weak)
| |
| 100%
| xdgMime
| application/mbox
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