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Details for: Internet Message Format

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Signatures
External signatures File extension: eml
Internal signatures
Name Outlook Express Mail Message
Description Version of ARPA Internet Text Message. ASCII Characters, X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 and including the two CRLF that terminate the line in the eml header. Signature may be too prescriptive and will need improving with more eml format testing.
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Maximum Offset 1024
Byte order  
Value 0D0A582D4D696D654F4C453A2050726F6475636564204279204D6963726F736F6674204D696D654F4C452056362E30302E{4}2E{4}0D0A
Name Emailchemy RFC2822
Description Signature to identify RFC2822 standard messages output from Emailchemy email conversion application. Character sequence: X-Converted-By: Emailchemy ??.
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Maximum Offset 4096
Byte order  
Value 0D0A582D436F6E7665727465642D42793A20456D61696C6368656D7920??2E
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