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<A HREF ="http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/mail/mime-faq/.html">http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/mail/mime-faq/.html</A>

SMTP The MIME FAQ is a 3 part FAQ about MIME. There is also a "part 0" or meta-FAQ with help for MIME problems. It is available at many sites - some more are below; the above site looked reasonably up-to-date and also has other stuff about mail. To quote the FAQ: ---------------- MIME, the Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions, is a freely available specification that offers a way to interchange text in languages with different character sets, and multi-media e-mail among many different computer systems that use Internet mail standards. If you were bored with plain text e-mail messages, thanks to MIME you now can create and read e-mail messages containing these things: - character sets other than US-ASCII - enriched text - images - sounds - other messages (reliably encapsulated) - tar files - PostScript - pointers to FTPable files - other stuff MIME supports not only several pre-defined types of non-textual message contents, such as 8-bit 8000Hz-sampled mu-LAW audio, GIF image files, and PostScript programs, but also permits you to define your own types of message parts. 30/01/97 jane looks promising see the documents ? Other sites with the MIME FAQ are: MIT - <A HREF ="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/mail/mime-faq/">ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/mail/mime-faq/</A> uu.net - <A HREF ="ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.answers/mail/mime-faq/">ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.answers/mail/mime-faq/</A> Duke - <A HREF ="http://phonebk.duke.edu:8001/clients/mimefaq1.html">http://phonebk.duke.edu:8001/clients/mimefaq1.html</A> informational web page