MIME Resources
Manuals/Guides
- MIME Description
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MIME
This section contains information and documentation about MIME.
MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. The purpose of MIME is to allow the use of a wide variety of media types through internet mail. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Working Group defined the standard for MIME in 1992. Current MIME RFC's include:
- 2045- MIME Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
- 2046 - MIME Part Two: Media Types
- 2047 - MIME Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
- 2048 - MIME Part Four: Registration Procedures
- 2049 - MIME Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples
Terms
- Rendering - The act of presenting the information in a document to the user.
- Parsing - The scanning and filtering of the information in a document into the context of the elements the information is structured for.
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