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MIME support in THOR

What is MIME? (from RFC1341)
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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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