Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIME

   <file format, multimedia> (MIME) A {standard} for multi-part,
   {multimedia} {electronic mail} messages and {World-Wide Web}
   {hypertext} documents on the {Internet}.  MIME provides the
   ability to transfer non-textual data, such as graphics,
   {audio} and fax.  It is defined in {RFC 2045}, {RFC 2046},
   {RFC 2047}, {RFC 2048}, {RFC 2049}, and {BCP0013}.  It uses
   {mimencode} to encode binary data into {base 64} using a
   subset of {ASCII}.

   FAQ
   
(http://cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/mime-faq/top.html).

   (1995-04-04)