Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)

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Abbreviations / Acronyms / Synonyms:

MIME

NIST SP 1800-6

Definitions:

A protocol that makes use of the headers in an IETF RFC 2822 message to describe the structure of rich message content.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-45 Version 2

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