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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:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/

MIME format

MIME defines five headers

MIME-Versionidentifies MIME version currently 1.0
Content-Descriptionfree text description of message
Content-Idunique identifier
Content-Transfer-Encodinghow body is encoded for sending
Content-Typenature of message

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