Mechanisms Added by MIME

• RFCs 2045 to 2049 – Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

  • enhancements to RFC 822
  • textual message bodies in characters other than US-ASCII
  • extensible formats for non-text bodies
  • multi-part bodies
  • textual headers incharacter sets other than US-ASCII

One New Field in Header

MIME-Version: 1.0

Message Headers

Four New Headers in Body

Content-Type:

Content-Transfer-Encoding:

Content-ID:

Content-Description:

And Associated Structures,

That Can Be Used Recursively

Message Body

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