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

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Since RFC 2822, conforming message header field names and values use ASCII characters; values that contain non-ASCII data should use the MIME encoded-word syntax (RFC 2047) instead of a literal string. This syntax uses a string of ASCII characters indicating both

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

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• 8BITMIME
• Unicode and email
• Binary-to-text encoding
• Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME) – a now superseded Microsoft-proposed protocolintended as a streamlined MIME,

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• 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

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

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