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Mailbox/MIME Entity | 1996-04-22 | 83.1 KB
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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
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`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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