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Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
To allow Internet e-mail messages to contain
an extended format MIME is specified in RFC 2045 and RFC 2046
IANA keeps register of currently recognised media types:
MIME format
MIME defines five headers
| MIME-Version | identifies MIME version currently 1.0 |
| Content-Description | free text description of message |
| Content-Id | unique identifier |
| Content-Transfer-Encoding | how body is encoded for sending |
| Content-Type | nature of message |
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