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What's MIME?
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Messages so far, more exactly RFC822 messages, cannot contain objects
other than text. MIME is multi-purpose message to extend RFC822.

MIME has

     MIME-Version: 1.0

field in its header. Without this field, it is an RFC822 message. In
MIME, Content-Type: to indicate data type and
Content-Transfer-Encoding to specify encoding are important
fields. The following sections describe these fields and feature of
MIME.

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mime-ct
Labeling data type
mime-cte
Encoding for transport-safe
mime-multi
Multipart structure
mime-header
Header extensions