September 2026
1051 pages
35h 4m
English
In the previous sections, you learned how to send email through an SMTP server and how to download email from a POP3 or IMAP4 server. As you know, sending and receiving emails is based on pure ASCII protocols. Above all, this means that no binary data can be sent with these protocols. In addition, special characters that don’t conform to the seven-bit ASCII standard cause problems.
To be able to send these types of characters or binary data, the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) standard was developed. It encodes special characters and binary data so that they can be sent as a sequence of pure ASCII characters. In addition, the MIME standard defines different file types and specifies a syntax ...
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