MIME-Tools
Net::SMTP and MailTools provide the basic functionality to create simple text-only e-mail messages. The MIME-Tools package takes this a step further by allowing you to compose multipart messages that contain text and nontext attachments. You can also parse MIME-encoded messages to extract the attachments, add or remove attachments, and resend the modified messages.
A Brief Introduction to MIME
The Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, or MIME, are described in detail in RFCs 1521, 2045, 2046, and 2049. Essentially, MIME adds three major extensions to standard Internet mail:
Every message body has a type. In the MIME world, the body of every message has a type that describes its nature; this type is given in the Content-Type: header ...
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