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Julien Palard wrote...

> file detects MS Outlook .msg file as CDF v2 file :
> A MS Outlook .msg file can be found here to test :
>  * http://jahudson.wiki.hoover.k12.al.us/file/detail/nuclear+chemsitry.msg
> The header of MS Outlook files is d0 cf 11 e0 a1 b1 1a e1 that is the header 
> of
> the microsoft Compound File Binary File Format that seems to be used for most
> of the documents in microsoft systems like word, excel, ppt, ...

... and MS Outlook files. So technically file(1) is right here, but
that's not helpful of course.

The missing feature of file's cdf parser is to identify more uses
of that container format, like MSI (installer) or OCX controls.
Working on it, stay tuned.

    Christoph

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