RFC 1521:MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensio...
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... RFC-822] has defined the standard format of textual mail messages on the Internet. Its success has been such that the RFC 822std11(-> 2822prop) format has been adopted, ...
... success has been such that the RFC 822std11(-> 2822prop) format has been adopted, wholly or partially, well beyond the confines of the Internet and the Internet SMTP ...
... wholly or partially, well beyond the confines of the Internet and the Internet SMTP transport defined by STD ...
... and receive mail). Examples of such encodings currently used in the Internet include pure hexadecimal, uuencode, the 3-in-4 base 64 scheme specified in RFC 1421hist, the Andrew Toolkit Representation ...
... message handling system (i.e., the X.400 message is "tunneled" through Internet mail), where the non-textual information would definitely become useful again. ...
... MIME defines a registration process which uses the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) as a central registry for ...


... Since RFC 822std11(-> 2822prop) was published in 1982, there has really been only one format standard for Internet messages, and there has been little perceived need to declare the format standard in use. This document is an independent document that complements RFC 822std11(-> 2822prop) ...
... MIME-Version", which is to be used to declare the version of the Internet message body format standard in use. ...


... [RFC-1426]. As of the publication of this document, there are no standardized Internet mail transports for which it is legitimate to include unencoded binary data ...
... no circumstances in which the "binary" Content-Transfer-Encoding is actually legal on the Internet. However, in the event that binary mail transport becomes a reality in Internet mail ...
... Internet. However, in the event that binary mail transport becomes a reality in Internet mail, or when this document is used in conjunction with any other binary-capable ...
... transport, in the same manner that plain text mail has always been altered in Internet mail when passing between systems with differing newline conventions. If such alterations are likely to constitute a corruption of the data, it is probably more sensible to use the ...


... text/plain", which indicates plain (unformatted) text. The default Content-Type for Internet mail is "text/plain; charset=us- ...
... ISO-646] are NOT ASCII and their use in Internet mail is explicitly discouraged. The omission of the ISO 646 character set ...
... character sets have deliberately been omitted in favor of their 8859 replacements, which are the designated character sets for Internet mail. As of the publication of this document, the legitimate values for "X" are the digits 1 through 9. ...
... No other character set name may be used in Internet mail without the publication of a formal specification and its registration with IANA ...
... The primary subtype of text is "plain". This indicates plain (unformatted) text. The default Content-Type for Internet mail, "text/plain; charset ...
... "text/plain; charset=us-ascii", describes existing Internet practice. That is, it is the type of body defined by RFC 822std11(-> 2822prop). ...
... 822std11(-> 2822prop) message and a body part is subtle, but important. A gateway between Internet and X.400 mail, for example, must be able to tell the difference between a ...
... be in force. (That is, the transport domains may resemble standard Internet mail transport as specified in RFC821std10(-> 2821prop) and ...
... MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Internet Digest, volume 42 Content-Type: multipart/digest; ...
... is similar to IP fragmentation/reassembly in the basic Internet Protocols.) This mechanism can be used when intermediate transport agents ...


... violated, and care has been taken to avoid problems caused by additional restrictions imposed by the characteristics of some Internet mail transport mechanisms (see Appendix B). The "multipart" and "message" Content-Types ...


... For more information, the authors of this document may be contacted via Internet mail: Nathaniel S. Borenstein ...
... MIME is a result of the work of the Internet Engineering Task Force Working Group on Email ...


... Internet email is not a perfect, homogeneous system. Mail may become corrupted at several stages in its travel to a final destination. ...
... destination. Specifically, email sent throughout the Internet may travel across many networking technologies. Many networking and mail technologies do not support the full functionality possible in the SMTP ...
... There exist many widely-deployed non-conformant MTAs in the Internet. These MTAs, speaking the SMTP ...
... EBCDIC system. Similar problems can occur without crossing a gateway, since many Internet hosts use character sets other than ...


... be in force. (That is, the transport domains may resemble standard Internet mail transport as specified in RFC821std10(-> 2821prop) and ...


... MIME defines a registration process which uses the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) as a central registry for such values. ...
... published as an RFC or submitted in a form suitable to become an RFC, and be subject to the Internet standards process. To: IANA ...
... Published specification: (The published specification must be an Internet RFC or RFC-to-be if a new top-level type is being defined, and ...
... Published specification: (The published specification must be an Internet RFC or RFC-to-be.) ...


... Crocker, D., "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages", STD 11, RFC 822std11(-> 2822prop) ...
... Sirbu, M., "Content-Type Header Field for Internet Messages", STD 11, RFC 1049hist, CMU, March 1988. ...
... Linn, J., "Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part I - Message Encryption and Authentication Procedures", RFC 1421hist ...
... Robinson, D. and R. Ullmann, "Encoding Header Field for Internet Messages", RFC 1154(-> 1505exp), Prime Computer, Inc., April 1990. ...
... Borenstein, N., and N. Freed, "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies", RFC 1341(-> 1521(-> 2049draft | 2048(-> 4289 | 4288) | 2047draft | 2046draft | 2045draft)), Bellcore, Innosoft, June 1992. ...
... Borenstein, N., and N. Freed, "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies", RFC 1341(-> 1521(-> 2049draft | 2048(-> 4289 | 4288) | 2047draft | 2046draft | 2045draft)), Bellcore, Innosoft, June 1992. ...
... Moore, K., "Representation of Non-Ascii Text in Internet Message Headers", RFC 1342(-> 1522(-> 2049draft | 2048(-> 4289 | 4288) | 2047draft | 2046draft | 2045draft)), University of Tennessee, June 1992. ...
... Borenstein, N., "Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways", RFC 1344, Bellcore, June 1992. ...
... Moore, K., "Representation of Non-Ascii Text in Internet Message Headers" RFC 1522(-> 2049draft | 2048(-> 4289 | 4288) | 2047draft | 2046draft | 2045draft), University of Tennessee, September 1993. ...



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