MIME Extensions
Extra header to flag message as MIME, e.g.:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Extra header to specify body, e.g.:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
allows for: text, multipart, application, message, image, audio, and video
Extra header to specify encoding, for non-text, e.g.:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
allows for: 7bit, quoted-printable, base64, 8bit, and binary
Extra syntax to allow multiple parts inside a message.
Extra rules for processing specialised message bodies.
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Lee McLoughlin
1996.