MIME is short for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, a
specification for formatting non-ASCII messages so that they can be
sent over the Internet.
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MIME (Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions) is an extension of the
original Internet e-mail protocol that lets people use the protocol to
exchange different kinds of data files on the Internet: audio, video,
images, application programs, and other kinds, as well as the ASCII
text handled in the original protocol, the Simple Mail Transport
Protocol (SMTP).
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Multipart MIME simply means that a message can contain several
different parts, for example, a plain-text message, the same text
formatted in HTML, and a JPEG image. Each might be encoded differently
under the MIME standard, but the different parts can be combined in
one message.
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