MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet Standard for the format of e-mail. Virtually all Internet e-mail is transmitted via SMTP in MIME format. Internet e-mail is so closely associated with the SMTP and MIME standards that it is sometimes called SMTP/MIME e-mail.

Multipart Example

A MIME multipart message contains a boundary in the "Content-type:" header; this boundary, which must not occur in any of the parts, is placed between the parts, and at the beginning and end of the body of the message, as follows:

Related Topics:
Multipart message - Boundary - Body

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Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="frontier"

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MIME-version: 1.0

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