9.16) MIME [Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions]
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FAQ, by Marc SCHAEFER,
9.16) MIME [Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions]
Mime is at this time a mail standard. Amiga packages include "metamail-2.3" available by ftp on ftp.eunet.ch mirrors. It is an extension to standard mail message, allowing to pass enhanced text, graphics, audio, and more, in a standardized and interoperable manner. It's far more than just ASCII text. The only News system that is supposed to include something similar is the NeXT NewsGrazer which uses RTF (rich text format). GRn and GMail will probably support MIME in some future releases. The metamail-2.4 port for the Amiga (by Johan Widin) requires a suite of other programs as well (as most Amiga MIME implementation will) to convert the text and graphics formats to things that can be displayed on the Amiga (GIF, TIFF, TeX, etc.)
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