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

["Tim Allison (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2454?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Tim Allison resolved TIKA-2454.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 1.17

This should be fixed. Please re-open if there is a more elegant way of accomplishing this or if there are surprises.

We have to rely on the PST library for correct encoding of both the body text and the html.

> 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
>
>
> 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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