MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension

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The Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) is defined to allow transmission of non-ASCII data via e-mail. MIME allows arbitrary data to be encoded in ASCII and then transmitted in a standard e-mail message.


SMTP cannot be used for languages that are not supported by seven-bit ASCII characters. It cannot also be used for binary files or to send video or audio data. MIME is a supplementary protocol that allows non-ASCII data to be sent through SMTP. MIME is a set of software functions that transforms non-ASCII data to ASCII data and vice versa.

This is what all about the MIME. How it works and its description.

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