When web pages containing emails are sent out they are prefixed by MIME Header. Why?
Primarily email consisted messages having simple text written into English and expressed into ASCII. Currently a days on worldwide internet messages can be sent in languages along with accents as German and French, languages without alphabet as Japanese and Chinese etc. the basic idea of MIME is to add structure to the message body and describe encoding rule for non- ASCII messages.
MIME describes five additional message headers to the RFC 822 format.
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H e a d e r
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M e a n i n g
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MIME Version
Content Description
Content - ID
Content transfere n coding
Content Type
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Knows the MIME version
Readable string telling about message
Unique Identifier
How the body is wrapped for transmission
Nature of the message
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