[fdo] new Microsoft Outlook mime type for freedesktop.org.xml

Abel Cheung deaddog.abel at gmail.com
Sun Dec 18 02:36:31 PST 2005


On 12/8/05, Joshua Julin <jjulin at idealcorp.com> wrote:
> Hello developers,
>
> I noticed that no mime type for Microsoft Outlook is in the
> freedesktop.org.xml file.

Perhaps you should file bug report in bugzilla so that it won't be
forgotten.

Abel

>
> Adding the following to freedesktop.org.xml will correcly identify my
> *.pst files:
>
>   <mime-type type="application/vnd.ms-outlook">
>     <comment>Microsoft Outlook</comment>
>     <glob pattern="*.pst"/>
>     <magic priority="50">
>       <match value="0x4e444221" type="little32" offset="0"/>
>     </magic>
>   </mime-type>
>
> I don't know if this magic number works for all pst files; it just works
> for mine.
> Does anyone know the correct way to identify Outlook files?
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Joshua Julin
>
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