MIME originated from the Andrew Messaging System, which was part of Andrew Project developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), as a cross-platform alternative to the Andrew-specific data format. See more

Since RFC 2822, conforming message header field names and values use ASCII characters; values that contain non-ASCII data should use the … See more

• 8BITMIME
• Binary-to-text encoding
• Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME) – a now superseded Microsoft-proposed protocol intended as a streamlined MIME, primarily for use in See more

• MIME Media Types – comprising a list of directories of content types and subtypes, maintained by Internet Assigned Numbers Authority See more

MIME-Version
The presence of this header field indicates the message is MIME-formatted. The value is typically "1.0". The field appears as follows:
According to MIME co-creator Nathaniel Borenstein, … See more

The MIME multipart message contains a boundary in the header field Content-Type:; this boundary, which must not occur in any of the parts, is placed between the parts, … See more

• Hughes, L (1998). Internet Email Protocols, Standards and Implementation. Artech House Publishers. ISBN 978-0-89006-939-4.
• Johnson, K (2000). Internet Email Protocols: A Developer's Guide. Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 978-0-201-43288-6 See more