| Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) |
| MIME is an encoding standard for that allows non-text files like graphics, sound clips, etc., to be attached to regular text email. Your email program will encode these binary files and change them into text files. When the e-mail is sent, your program notifies the recipient program of the MIME encoding standard used, and in effect sends instructions as to how to put the file back into its original form. |
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