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| Confidence | Program | Detection | Match Type | Support
|
|---|
| 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 munnari.oz.au!uunet!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!bu.edu!bu-cs!bu-pub!bear Mon Mar 26 21:25:37 1990", ASCII text
| default
| |
| 100%
| TrID
| E-Mail message (Var. 2)
| default
| |
| 100%
| checkBytes
| Printable ASCII
| default
| |
| 100%
| perlTextCheck
| Likely Text (Perl)
| default
| |
| 100%
| siegfried
| x-fmt/111 Plain Text File
| default
| |
| 100%
| detectItEasy
| Format: plain text[LF]
| default (weak)
| |
| 100%
| xdgMime
| application/mbox
| default
|
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|00000040| 21 62 75 2d 70 75 62 21 | 62 65 61 72 20 4d 6f 6e |!bu-pub!|bear Mon|
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