RFC - 1341
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies
| Original: | ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1341.txt |
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| Authors: | N. Borenstein [Bellcore], N. Freed [Innosoft] |
| Date: | June 1992 |
| Category: | Informational |
| This specification has been !!! obsoleted !!! | |
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| RFC-1521 | MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies (Obsoleted by RFC-2048 -> RFC-4288; -> RFC-4289, RFC-2049draft, RFC-2047draft, RFC-2045draft, RFC-2046draft) (Updated by RFC-1590) |
| Referred by: | 38 RFC |
| Refers to: | 10 RFC |
Status
This RFC specifies an IAB standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "IAB Official Protocol Standards" for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
RFC 822std11(-> 2822prop) defines a message representation protocol which specifies considerable detail about message headers, but which leaves the message content, or message body, as flat ASCII text. This document redefines the format of message bodies to allow multi-part textual and non-textual message bodies to be represented and exchanged without loss of information. This is based on earlier work documented in RFC 934 and RFC 1049hist, but extends and revises that work. Because RFC 822std11(-> 2822prop) said so little about message bodies, this document is largely orthogonal to (rather than a revision of) RFC 822std11(-> 2822prop).
In particular, this document is designed to provide facilities to include multiple objects in a single message, to represent body text in character sets other than US- ASCII, to represent formatted multi-font text messages, to represent non-textual material such as images and audio fragments, and generally to facilitate later extensions defining new types of Internet mail for use by cooperating mail agents.
This document does NOT extend Internet mail header fields to permit anything other than US-ASCII text data. It is recognized that such extensions are necessary, and they are the subject of a companion document [RFC-1342].
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prepared by Miloslav Nic
- the founder of Zvon.org and Law-Ref.org
- the head of B.Sc. program Informatics and chemistry [in Czech]
- the founder of Lidem.org - Volby 2006 - parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic [in Czech]
- the chief consultant of the publishing house ICT Press
- and Pavel Srb, a student of B.Sc. program Informatics and chemistry