Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet Standard that extends the format of e-mail to support:text in character sets other than US-ASCII;non-text attachments;multi-part message bodies; andheader information in non-ASCII character sets. Virtually all human-written Internet e-mail and a fairly large proportion of automated e-mail is transmitted via SMTP in MIME format. Internet e-mail is so closely associated with the SMTP and MIME standards that it is sometimes called SMTP/MIME e-mail.[1]
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Mime or pantomime is a theatrical medium or performance art, involving the acting out of a story by a mime artist through body motions, without use of speech.
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<file format, multimedia> (MIME) A standard for multi-part, multimedia electronic mail messages and World-Wide Web hypertext documents on the Internet. MIME provides the ability to transfer non-textual data, such as graphics, audio and fax. It is defined in RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047, RFC 2048, RFC 2049, and BCP0013. It uses mimencode to encode binary data into base 64 using a subset of ASCII.
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