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Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions MIME

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has defined an extension to allow the transfer of non-ASCII data through e-mail. The extension is called Multipurpose internet Mail Extensions (MIME). The extension allows arbitrary data to be encoded in ASCII and the transmitted in a standard e-mail message.

The MIME standard defines seven basic contains types. The list of these types is as below:

Content Type	Data in the Message
Text	Text
Image	A still photograph or computer generated image
Audio	A sound recording
Video	A video recording with motion
Application	Raw data for a program
Multipart	Multiple message with type and encoding
Messsage	An entire e-mail message.

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