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Definition of MIME

(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension; pr. ‘mime’) An encoding system used in- email, mainly for sending attachments. Email was originally designed to just use plain text, so programs, graphics etc have to be sort of disguised as text for email systems to be able to handle them. MIME is more powerful than its predecessor, UUENCODE (pr. youyou-encode), but not all systems accept it.

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Other definitions of MIME

A common method for transmitting non-text data through Internet e-mail. MIME encodes non-text data as ASCII text and then decodes it back to its original format at the receiving end. A MIME header is added to the file which includes the type of data contained and the encoding method used.

Computer Science