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Matthew Caruana Galizia commented on TIKA-2454:
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I don't know if the same thing can be done wholesale for mbox files. There are
four variants of emails in mbox files:
http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/MBox#MBOX_File_Variants
> Emails extracted from PSTs detected as unexpected file types
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> 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
> Fix For: 1.17
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> 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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