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MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is an extension for Internet mail that allows:

• attachments (multipart messages)
• internationalizable (non-US-ASCII) message headers
• internationalizable message bodies
• encapsulated message type (e.g. HTML messages)

Definition

The MIME definition is spread across a number of RFCs.

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