MIME email is a new way of sending information over the internet through email. It permits the sender to attach any file, including document images, to an email message and send it over the Internet. The email is received by a MIME email client, which removes the attached file and launches an appropriate viewer or program for handling the file.
The standard for attaching files to Internet e-mail messages. Attached files may be text, graphics, spreadsheets, documents, sound files, etc.
Internet standard for encoding multimedia documents for sending by electronic mail. Unlike SMTP, MIME can include binary data alongside a normal mail message. MIME is needed on both sending and receiving stations, but they may be using different mail packages.
n. An Internet standard for identifying the type of object being transferred across the Internet. MIME types include several variants of audio, graphics, and video.
A standard mechanism for specifying and describing the format of Internet message bodies. MIME enables the exchanging of objects, different character sets, and multimedia in e-mail on different computer systems. Defined in RFC 1521.
A type of encoding used to transport non-ASCII files (such as spreadsheets, executable files, video, audio, etc.).
A standard for multi-part, multimedia electronic mail messages and World Wide Web (WWW) hypertext documents on the Internet. MIME provides the ability to transfer non-textual data, such as graphics, audio and fax.
An extension to Internet e-mail that provides the ability to transfer nontextual data, such as graphics, audio, and faxes. Many e-mail clients, such as Pine, mh, and NetCruiser have at least simple Mime capabilities. See also American Standard Code for information interchange, binary, e-mail. WWWebfx Home Page
The standard format for attaching non-text files, such as graphics, spreadsheets, formatted word-processor documents, and sound files, to text-based electronic mail messages, and the method needed to turn it back into its original form. An e-mail program is said to be MIME Compliant if it can both send and receive files using the MIME standard.
The Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions are a set of functions that allows binary files (such as word processing documents or executable programs) to be attached to Internet e-mail.
An Internet standard for transferring various file formats.
A series of RFCs that describe standards for embedding binary and multipart messages within RFC-822 mail. Besides being used for mail transport, MIME is used as an underlevel by important application protocols including HTTP and BEEP. OO
MIME is a standard format for the attachment of binary files to an email message. Attachments are usually word processing files or spreadsheets. FTP should be used for any files which are 500K in size.
a TCP/IP standard used on the Internet to allow electronic mail headers and mail bodies to contain information other than plain text. It enables mail transfer in complex organisations. (p. 60)
A standard that enables binary data to be published and read on the Internet. The header of a file with binary data contains the MIME type of the data; this informs client programs (such as Web browsers and mail packages) that they connect process the data as straight text.
A standard that extends SMTP to allow the transmission of such data as video, sound, and binary files across the Internet without translating the data into ASCII format. See also: SMTP
A standard for encoding e-mail so that you can send more than plain ascii text; in other words, with audio, video, graphics, and text.
A string of the form type/subtype describing the contents of a file attached in an e-mail. This allows MIME -aware mail clients to define actions depending on the type of the file. MPEG
Abbreviation: MIME. A way of designating both the encoding method and type of media within an electronic message. Each MIME type consists of a type/subtype pair. The type indicates the message’s media content, and the subtype designates the way the message was formatted or processed. Some examples of common MIME extensions are text/plain, application/binary, image/gif, audio/basic, and video/mpeg.
An extension to Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) that allows different forms of data including video, audio, or binary data to attach to e-mail, without requiring translation into American National Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) text. (Back to the top)
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, or MIME, is the standard way to organize different file formats. For example, if you receive an e-mail, which is in a different format than yours, the file will be decoded so you can read it using MIME.
(abbreviation: MIME) An extension to Internet email which provides the ability to transfer non-textual data, such as graphics, audio and fax.
An open-ended standard for including attachments in electronic mail messages. See also attachment, mail, NeXTMail.
A convention for identifying different types of binary information, such as images or sounds, and thereby indicating the appropriate applications for viewing or playing this information. MIME is used to set preferences for helper applications so that documents can be displayed or played automatically in Tapestry and Netscape Navigator applications.
An extension to Internet email which provides the ability to transfer non-textual data, such as graphics, audio and fax. It is defined in RFC 1341. See also: Electronic Mail
Format for attaching binary files to e-mails. Enables multi-part/multimedia messages to be sent over the Internet. This standard was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). See als binhex, uuencode.
MIME supports the transmission of text and binary data (including sound and graphics) via the Internet.
Refers to a process of converting binary data to base64 so that it can be transported across the internet in an attachment within an ASCII format. It may also refer to the document or attachment itself.
An open set of specifications that offers a way to interchange text in languages with different character sets and multimedia email among many different computer systems that use Internet mail standards.
An Internet specification describing file types. Servers and browsers read the MIME type in the file header and decide what to do with the file, such as displaying it with a viewer or playing it as an audio file. MIME is used by HTTP servers to describe the type of file being delivered.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is a program that can transform a file attached to a message (e.g. word processor file) into a format that the email program can transmit and receive.
Functions used for the attachment of binary files to an e-mail...
An extension to Internet email which provides the ability totransfer non-textual data, such as graphics, audio and fax. It isdefined in RFC 1341. See also: Electronic Mail MX Record