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MIME, Multimedia E-Mail Support

• E-Mail today includes more than words
• Multimedia has many types of attachments, MIME addresses this issue
• MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) labels the different types of E-Mail contents
• MIME has types and subtypes, e.g.

	Type		Subtype

	Multipart	Mixed, Alternative, Digest, Parallel
	Text		Plain, Enriched
	Image		JPEG, GIF, X-BMP
	Audio		BASIC, X-MIDI, X-WAVE
	Video		MPEG, X-AVS, X-AVI
	Message	RFC822, Partial, External Body
	Application	Arbitrary Binary, Postscript