Nathaniel Borenstein: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)

MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies

Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways

The recent development of MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) offers a wide range of new opportunities for electronic mail system systems. Most of these opportunites are relevant only to user agents, the programs that interact with human users when they send and receive mail. However, some opportunities are also opened up for mail transport systems. While MIME was carefully designed so...

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples

STD 11, RFC 822, defines a message representation protocol specifying considerable detail about US-ASCII message headers, and leaves the message content, or message body, as flat US-ASCII text. This set of documents, collectively called the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, or MIME, redefines the format of messages to allow for (1) textual message bodies in character sets other than US-ASC...

MIME: Multimedia Internet Mail Extensions

Although multimedia systems are rapidly becoming more widely available and affordable, most present-day multimedia applications are not designed with interoperability in mind. Multimedia data from one application can be used in another only in relatively specialized circumstances or with special translator software, effort, and expense. While this situation is undesirable, it is not a critical ...

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies

STD 11, RFC 822, defines a message representation protocol specifying considerable detail about USASCII message headers, and leaves the message content, or message body, as flat US-ASCII text. This set of documents, collectively called the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, or MIME, redefines the format of messages to allow for 1. textual message bodies in character sets other than US-ASCII...