Re: [Nmh-workers] I need to learn more about MIME

[Peter Davis]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 09:40:44AM -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> In order to participate more meaningfully in these discussions I need to learn
> more about MIME.
> 
> Studying and becoming familiar with the relevant RFCs is much more than I want
> to or am able to do. I tried starting with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME,
> but the tree of links overwhelmed me. Can anybody suggest a course of study so
> that I can learn enough about MIME to able to participate, meaningfully, in
> most of these discussions?

There's an O'Reilly book called _Programming Internet Email_ 
<http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565924796.do> that has a whole chapter on 
MIME. That might be a good tutorial. The
book is from 1999, but I suspect it's still mostly correct.


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