Matthew Caruana Galizia created TIKA-2454:
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Summary: Emails extracted from PSTs detected as unexpected file
types
Key: TIKA-2454
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2454
Project: Tika
Issue Type: Bug
Components: detector, parser
Affects Versions: 1.16
Reporter: Matthew Caruana Galizia
This issue is severe. The Outlook PST parser extracts a string for the body of
every email and passes that string to the {{EmbeddedDocumentExtractor}}.
However, no content type is set on the {{Metadata}} object passed to the
extractor. Therefore, if for example, the body of the email starts with the
string "From John Smith." (for example, when an email was forwarded), then body
of the email is detected as {{application/mbox}} and parsed as though it were
an mbox file.
I think the immediate fix for this issue is to force the type of the email to
{{text/plain}} and for it to be parsed as such.
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