MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) • video type for time-varying picture images.The Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) subtype is defined. • audio type for basic audio data at 8 KHz. • application type for executable code and any data that doesn’t fit neatly into any of the other types. Subtypes include octet-stream for binary data and postscript for PostScript files. • message type for encapsulated messages within e-mail. Partial subtype permits a long e-mail message to be fragmented at the transmitter and reassembled at the receiver. • multipart type supports the combination of multiple types into a single e-mail message. |