What is MIME? (from RFC1341) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MIME stands for "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions". It is the standard for how to send multipart, multimedia, and binary data using the world-wide Internet email system. Typical uses of MIME include sending images, audio, wordprocessing documents, programs, or even plain text files when it is important that the mail system does not modify any part of the file. MIME also allows for labelling message parts so that a recipient (or mail program) may determine what to do with them. THOR has extensive MIME support, and will automatically handle MIME on incoming messages, with internal support for: text/plain text/richtext text/enriched message/rfc822 message/partial multipart/mixed multipart/alternative multipart/digest It will also automatically decode the two major encoding schemes: quoted-printable base64 "Multi-media" mails with binary attachments will get an icon in the main window listview. This icon can be clicked on to perform certain operations on the attachment, including saving. When you have the appropriate datatypes installed, you can view pictures within the text and playback sound. The icons that is shown in the listview for each attachment are loaded from the filetypes/ directory in the main THOR dir. You can replace them with your own icons if you want, or rename one of the other filetypes#? directories to get different icon set. The icons should be project icons, and the default tool of the icons will tell THOR what external viewer to use, if the user chooses to use an external viewer. You can also attach files to outgoing messages in Thor. The attached files are encoded using base64. The message text can be encoded with Quoted-printable. Attached files received by you will get an "icon" in the main message area listview. Clicking on this icon will allow you to perform various operations on the attached file, depending on what type it is.
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