MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

What is MIME?

• Allows for character sets other than US-ASCII in both the message body and header

• Permits sending non-text (binary) files in e-mail

• Allows multi-part messages to be processed seamlessly

What does it look like?

In a mailer (such as elm) with limited or no MIME support, like this example.

What does it look like in a MIME mailer?

See the sidebar for some examples.