The IMAP4 protocol allows clients to separately retrieve any of the individual MIME parts and also to retrieve portions of either individual parts or the entire message.

The content types defined by MIME standards are also of importance outside of email, such as in communication protocols like HTTP for the World Wide Web.

Parts of MIME are also reused in communication protocols such as HTTP, which requires that data be transmitted in the context of email-like messages even though the data might not ( and usually doesn't ) actually have anything to do with email, and the message body can actually be binary.

Thunderbird prior to version 3 also sends out newly composed messages with inline content-disposition for all MIME parts.

OpenPGP is also more flexible in the format of the messages, in that it still supports plain message encryption and signing as they used to work before MIME standardization.

In many internet protocols such as HTTP and MIME email, the type of a bitstream is stated as the internet media type of the stream ( also called the MIME type or content type ).

It also supported MIME emails, along with plain text, to allow for backward compatibility.

Shift JIS ( also SJIS, MIME name Shift_JIS ) is a character encoding for the Japanese language, originally developed by a Japanese company called ASCII Corporation in conjunction with Microsoft and standardized as JIS X 0208 Appendix 1.

The kinemage information is stored in a human-as well as machine-readable text file that describes the hierarchy of display objects and their properties, and that also includes optional explanatory text ; the kinemage format is a defined chemical MIME type of ' chemical / x-kinemage ' with the file extension '. kin '.

PDN Mail was years ahead of its time and was also used by Microsoft Corporation until MIME was introduced.

It actually removed some features such as the POP daemon but also improved others such as portability and MIME support.

The release also included support for MIME type sniffing and improved the performance of loading the images used by a web page.

Comodo also offers Comodo System Cleaner, which includes a free registry cleaner program, Comodo Unite ( formerly EasyVPN ), a virtual private networking ( VPN ) program, and Comodo SecureEmail, an email encryption program that allows S / MIME email users to send emails to any email user without exchanging keys beforehand.

In addition to providing encryption and authentication — features also provided by typical public-key cryptography suites, such as PGP, GnuPG, and X. 509 ( S / MIME ) — OTR also offers some less common features:

While the ASCII range is encoded as one octet, as in UTF-8, the ASCII octets 0x21-0x7E ( decimal 33-126 ) are also used in UTF-1 multi-byte encodings ; therefore UTF-1 is unsuited for many Internet protocols, including MIME.

S / MIME specifies the MIME type ( smime-type " enveloped-data ") for data enveloping ( encrypting ) where the whole ( prepared ) MIME entity to be enveloped is encrypted and packed into an object which subsequently is inserted into an application / pkcs7-mime MIME entity.

* In URIs for MIME documents RFC 5147 specifies a fragment identifier for the character and line positions and ranges within the document using the keywords "" and "".

Provided certain rules are followed during encoding, UTF-7 can be sent in e-mail without using an underlying MIME transfer encoding, but still must be explicitly identified as the text character set.

It defines the MIME type " text / csv ", and CSV files that follow its rules should be very widely portable.

* MIME supplements the e-mail formatting rules to allow non-English text in both e-mail headers and bodies, and defines a mechanism for including non-textual attachments in e-mail bodies

STD 71 ( RFC 6152, < abbr title =" SMTP Service Extension for 8-bit MIME Transport "> 8BITMIME </ abbr >), and STD 72 ( RFC 6409, Mail Submission ) published in 2011.

The MIME media type for JPEG is image / jpeg ( defined in RFC 1341 ), except in Internet Explorer, which provides a MIME type of image / pjpeg when uploading JPEG images.

MIME defines mechanisms for sending other kinds of information in email.

MIME defines a collection of email headers for specifying additional attributes of a message including content type, and defines a set of transfer encodings which can be used to represent 8-bit binary data using characters from the 7-bit ASCII character set.

These goals were achieved by using additional RFC 822-style headers for all MIME message attributes and by making the MIME headers optional with default values ensuring a non-MIME message is interpreted correctly by a MIME-capable client.

In June 1992, MIME ( RFC 1341, since made obsolete by RFC 2045 ) defined a set of methods for representing binary data in ASCII text format.

It is commonly used in IP cameras as the MIME type for MJPEG streams.

* Direct Internet Message Encapsulation ( DIME )– a now superseded Microsoft-proposed protocol intended as a streamlined MIME, primarily for use in web services.

; RFC 1847: Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart / Signed and Multipart / Encrypted

; RFC 2047: MIME Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text.

When PNG development started in early 1995, developers decided not to incorporate support for animation, because the majority of the PNG developers felt that overloading a single file type with both still and animation features is a bad design, both for users ( who have no simple way of determining to which class a given image file belongs ) and for web servers ( which should use the image / foo MIME type for stills and video / foo for animations -- GIF notwithstanding ).

xYzZY is used as the default boundary marker by the Perl HTTP :: Message module for multipart MIME messages, and was used in Apple's AtEase for workgroups as the default administrator password in the 1990s.

As of 2009, there is no MIME / Internet media type registered for XSLT.

The XSLT 1. 0 Recommendation ( 1999 ) says " The MIME media types and should be used for XSLT stylesheets.

The email clients will perform formatting according to RFC 5322 for headers and body, and MIME for non-textual content and attachments.

** either by additional attributes ( such as the " type " attribute which indicates the MIME type of the external entity, or the " charset " attribute which indicates its encoding ),

When a document is transmitted via a MIME message or a transport that uses MIME content types such as an HTTP response, the message may signal the encoding via a Content-Type header, such as.

As some of these encoding formats are not capable of incorporating all metadata making up a coverage, GMLCOV foresees a multipart MIME encoding ( see Figure ) where the first component encodes the coverage description ( domain extent, range type, metadata, etc.

Text files usually have the MIME type " text / plain ", usually with additional information indicating an encoding.

The Base64 term originates from a specific MIME content transfer encoding.

MIME, the modern standard of E-mail format, forbids encoding of headers using byte values above the ASCII range.

Although MIME allows encoding the message body in various character sets ( broader than ASCII ), the underlying transmission infrastructure ( SMTP, the main E-mail transfer standard ) is still not guaranteed to be 8-bit clean.

With MIME, files that might have been uuencoded are transferred with base64 encoding.

It is defined as a MIME content transfer encoding for use in e-mail.

Quoted-printable and Base64 are the two basic MIME content transfer encodings, if a trivial " 8bit " encoding is not counted.

Some people, including yEnc's creator, have suggested including yEnc as part of MIME, which would solve nearly all of its problems and retain the low encoding overhead.

* support for three encoding standards ( MIME, uuencoding and BinHex );

The MIME Content-Type for this encoding is therefore " text / plain ; charset = macintosh ".

This is less efficient than, for example, base64 MIME encoding, but it is much simpler to program, keeping with CipherSaber's goal of maximal ease of implementation.

Email users can be puzzled by these limits because the MIME encoding adds 33 % overhead – so that a 20MB document on disk exceeds a 25MB file attachment limit.

With MIME, a message and all its attachments are encapsulated in a single multipart message, with base64 encoding to convert binary into 7-bit ASCII-or on modern mail servers running Extended SMTP, optionally full 8-bit support via the 8BITMIME extension.

An attached file with TNEF encoding is most often named winmail. dat or win. dat, and has a MIME type of Application / MS-TNEF.

Selecting RTF as the format for sending an e-mail implicitly enables TNEF encoding, using it in preference to the more common and widely compatible MIME standard.

To use Unicode in email headers, the Unicode text has to be encoded using a MIME " Encoded-Word " with a Unicode encoding as the charset.