RFC 2049:Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions ...
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header field


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... (1) Always generate a "MIME-Version: 1.0" header field in any message it creates. ...
... (2) Recognize the Content-Transfer-Encoding header field and decode all received data encoded by either quoted- printable or base64 ...
... (4) Recognize and interpret the Content-Type header field, and avoid showing users raw data with a Content-Type ...


... the resulting messages must be consistent with those produced by the model described here. For example, a message with the following header fields: ...


... [Note that the blank between the boundary and the start of the text in this part means no header fields were given and this is text in the US-ASCII character set ...


... (12) Added a clarifying note to the basic syntax rules for the Content-Type header field to make it clear that the following two forms: ...
... nonstandard "X-" subtype must be used in a Content-Type header field. (27) MIME media types ...


... Sirbu, M., "Content-Type Header Field for Internet Messages", RFC 1049hist, CMU, March 1988. ...



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