MIME Examples

A Simple Text Message

Presented here is an example of a plain text mail message.

You should pay special attention to the following features:

• The "Mime-Version" is 1.0
• The "Content-Type" is text/plain
• The text part defines the "charset" as US-ASCII
• The Content-Transfer-Encoding is defined to be 7bit.
• There are two private fields:
• "X-Mailer" - for the mailing application name
• "X-Lines" - for specifying how many lines are in the text

You can click THIS to see the file.

You can click THIS to see what it would look like if you had a mail application that supports MIME.

A Multipart Message

Presented here is an example of a multipart mail message, composed of the following parts:

1. Some text of Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN
2. A GIF image of Content-Type: IMAGE/gif
3. A second GIF image of Content-Type: IMAGE/gif
4. An audio file for PC of Content-Type: AUDIO/wav

You should pay special attention to the following features in this multipart mail message:

• There is a general "Content-Type" for the entire message, of type MULTIPART/MIXED
• The BOUNDARY:
• Is defined in the Content-Type field as: BOUNDARY="pc-ranlahat.ecitele.com:807722592:1402405494:1451687977:1917059072"
• Appears, with two preceding hyphens ("--"), between each two parts of the multipart message
• Appears, with two preceding & two following hyphens ("--"), at the end of the message
• The text part defines the "charset" as US-ASCII
• The other parts define also a Content-Transfer-Encoding method, which is BASE64.

You can click THIS to see the file.

You can click THIS to see what it would look like if you had a mail application that supports MIME.

You can also see a nice visualization example written at "oac.uci.edu".