A protocol you can use to include multimedia in email messages by appending the multimedia file in the message. Because not all mail clients support MIME, you should make sure that the message recipient has a MIME-enabled mail client.
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The Internet standard for sending mail messages that contain images, audio, word-processing documents, and programs. Netscape Messenger can send and receive MIME-type email.
A standard that extends the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) for encoding non-ASCII data files such as video, sound, and binary files for attachment to Internet e-mail. output protection level A setting in a license that indicates which technologies can be used to play or copy protected digital media content. packaged Windows Media file A Windows Media file encrypted with a key, which consumers cannot play unless they have a key provided by a license. A packaged Windows Media file is produced by and protected through the implementation of digital rights management using the Windows Media Rights Manager Software Development Kit (SDK) or a program based on the Microsoft Windows Media Format SDK.
A standard that extends the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) for encoding non-ASCII data files such as video, sound, and binary files for attachment to Internet e-mail. National Television Standards Committee (NTSC) The dominant television standard in the United States and Japan. NTSC delivers 30 interlaced frames per second at 525 lines of resolution.
Method for differentiating file formats
The standard for attaching non-text fields to standard Internet mail messages. Non-text files include graphics, spreadsheets, formatted word processor documents, sound files, etc. An e-mail program is said to be "MIME Compliant" if it can both send and receive files using the MIME standard. When non-text files are sent using the MIME standard they are converted (encoded) into text--although the resulting text is not really readable. The MIME standard is a way of specifying both the type of file being sent (e.g., a Quicktime (TM) video file) and the method that should be used to turn it back into its original form. Besides e-mail software, the MIME standard is also universally used by web servers to identify the files they are sending to web clients. In this way, new file formats can be accommodated simply by updating the browser's list of pairs of MIME-types and appropriate software for handling each type. See browser, client, and server.