[jira] [Created] (TIKA-2454) Emails extracted from PSTs detected as unexpected file types

["Matthew Caruana Galizia (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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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