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In article <5227@ceylon.gte.com> ljd2@roger.gte.com (Leonard D'Alotto) writes:
> I have been asked to learn about, and become conversant about, something
> called MIME(?).  I haven't a clue as to what it is, but it is supposedly
> some type of multimedia messaging standard, system, ow whatever.  It
> fell on me as I happen to know a little about X.400.  If anyone can
> point me in the right direction for gaining knowledge on this subject,
> it would be appreciated.
> 
> Len D'Alotto
> GTE Laboratories
> Waltham, MA  USA
> ljd2@gte.com

Obtain Internet RFC documents RFC1341 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail 
Extensions).  Also refer to RFC1327 Mapping between x.400 (1988) / ISO 
100021 and RFC822, and RFC822.

Details on obtaining RFCs via FTP or EMAIL may be obtained by sending
an EMAIL message to "rfc-info@ISI.EDU" with the message body 
"help: ways_to_get_rfcs".  For example:

	To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU
	Subject: getting rfcs

	help: ways_to_get_rfcs



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In article <5227@ceylon.gte.com>, ljd2@roger.gte.com (Leonard D'Alotto) 
writes:
> I have been asked to learn about, and become conversant about, 
> something called MIME(?).  I haven't a clue as to what it is, but it is 
> supposedly some type of multimedia messaging standard, system, ow 
> whatever.  It fell on me as I happen to know a little about X.400.  If 
> anyone can point me in the right direction for gaining knowledge on 
> this subject, it would be appreciated. 

MIME is an extension to SMTP that allows for many of the features that mac 
X.400 such a nifty messaging protocol. There are two RFCs that provide a bulk 
of the information

1344  Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways
1341  MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Mechanisms for Specifying

and there are a number of IETF drafts in the works that can be retrieved via 
FTP from nic.dnn.mil.

Dave



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Dave Saunders <dave@intercon.com>
InterCon Systems Corporation
"Standards-based networking for a standards-based world"
When your IQ rises to 28, sell. --Professor Irwin Corey to a heckler

In article <5227@ceylon.gte.com>, ljd2@roger.gte.com (Leonard D'Alotto) writes...
>I have been asked to learn about, and become conversant about, something
>called MIME(?).  I haven't a clue as to what it is, but it is supposedly
>some type of multimedia messaging standard, system, ow whatever.  It
>fell on me as I happen to know a little about X.400.  If anyone can
>point me in the right direction for gaining knowledge on this subject,
>it would be appreciated.

There is a newsgroup called comp.mail.mime : it is a little more than a 
month old, with a FAQ in the make.

>Len D'Alotto
>GTE Laboratories
>Waltham, MA  USA
>ljd2@gte.com

  Happy hacking

alex khalil
U. of Houston-Downtown
alex@dt.uh.edu