-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think the purpose of MIME is to give e-mail system the ability to transfer messages with the format other than US-ASCII. With MIME, you can transfer binary file through e-mail by encoding and decoding the messages before and after transfer happens.
Jimmy On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i think mime provides a logical division of an email based on content -- like > an attachment or a gpg signature, and this allows mail clients to deal with > the material in an appropriate manner. > > if this isn't correct, can someone provide a better, simple explanation in > their own words? > > thanks, > pete ____________________________________________________________ Jingmin (Jimmy) Zhou Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : www.mtc.dhs.org ICQ : 19587415 The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. - Terminator II, Judgement Day ____________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwU9+0ACgkQVieKrU8JxnlZgQCfcsoTpPjnErGb7jpnnCaJrm4h GkQAn1+QJzOXOU4zwM4n1/6ihdZJL8RC =0Pve -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
