Tim Allison created TIKA-4248:
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Summary: Improve PST handling of attachments
Key: TIKA-4248
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-4248
Project: Tika
Issue Type: Task
Reporter: Tim Allison
The PST parser doesn't handle attachments in quite the same way as other
parsers which hinders analysis of attachments.
The problem is that the PST parser handles the text content of an email and the
embedded attachments. And, the PST parser processes attachments before the main
body. These two features make the normal patterns for embedded attachments
break down in the RecursiveParserWrapper. For example, when the attachments are
being processed, the RecursiveParserWrapper can't figure out what the path will
be through the "body" because that hasn't been parsed yet.
We should probably create a PSTMailItemParser that handles the content and the
attachments like other parsers so that embedded paths can be maintained.
This will be a breaking change, and I'm targeting it only to the 3.x branch.
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