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Table Of Contents  The TCP/IP Guide
 9  TCP/IP Application Layer Protocols, Services and Applications (OSI Layers 5, 6 and 7)
      9  TCP/IP Key Applications and Application Protocols
           9  TCP/IP File and Message Transfer Applications and Protocols (FTP, TFTP, Electronic Mail, USENET, HTTP/WWW, Gopher)
                9  TCP/IP Electronic Mail System: Concepts and Protocols (RFC 822, MIME, SMTP, POP3, IMAP)
                     9  TCP/IP Electronic Mail Message Formats and Message Processing: RFC 822 and MIME
                          9  TCP/IP Enhanced Electronic Mail Message Format: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)

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MIME Composite Media Types: Multipart and Encapsulated Message Structures
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Example Multipart Message

Table 248 contains a specific example of a multipart message (with portions abbreviated to keep length down), so you can see what one looks like in text form. (If you want to see more, you probably have several in your own e-mail inbox right now!)


Table 248: Example MIME Multipart Message

From: Joe Sender <joe@someplace.org>
To: Jane Receiver <jane@somewhereelse.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 13:28:19 —0800
Subject: Photo and discussion
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="exampledelimtext123"

This is a multipart message in MIME format

—exampledelimtext123
Content-Type: text/plain

Jane, here is the photo you wanted me for the new client.
Here are some notes on how it was processed.
(Blah blah blah…)
Talk to you soon,
Joe.

—exampledelimtext123

Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="clientphoto.jpg"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

SDc9Pjv/2wBDAQoLCw4NDhwQEBw7KCIoOzs7Ozs7Ozs

zv/wAARCADIARoDASIAAhEBAxEB/8QAHAAAAQUBA

—exampledelimtext123

(Epilogue)


In this example, Joe is sending Jane a multipart message containing a JPEG photograph and some explanatory text. The main header of the message specifies the multipart/mixed type and a boundary string of “exampledelimtext123”. The message begins with the preamble, which is ignored by the recipient e-mail client but can be seen by the human reader. It is common to put a string here such as the one given in this example. That way, if a person using a client that does not support MIME receives the message, the recipient will know what it is.

The first delimiter string is then placed in the message, followed by the first body part, the text Joe is sending Jane. This is preceded by whatever headers are needed by the body part, in this case Content-Type: text/plain. (Note, however, that this is the default in MIME, so it could be omitted here.) After the text message is another delimiter and then the encoded JPEG photo in the second body part, with its own headers. Finally, one more delimiter and then a space for the epilogue. This is ignored if present, and is often not used at all.

It is possible to send a “multipart” message that has only a single body part. This is sometimes done to take advantage of the preamble area to provide information about how to decode a non-text media type. Of course, this can also be done by including such text decoding instructions as a body part.


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