Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
- Extensions to RFC822 email for general "attachments".
- Allow multiple audio, picture, video... sent as 7 bit ascii.
- Must still interwork with non-MIME mail systems.
Further information:
RFC 822
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol standard,
RFC 1521
and
RFC 1522
the formal MIME specification (parts 1 and 2) and
RFC 1437
MIME extensions to transmit life-forms as email.
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Lee McLoughlin,
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