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- From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
- Subject: Frequently asked questions about MIME
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 00:43:57 GMT
- Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Archive-name: mime-faq
-
- 0.1 Introduction
-
- This is a skeleton of a Frequently Asked Questions document about
- MIME, the multipurpose and multi-media standard for Internet mail. It
- is intended to elicit responses and information so that it can be
- filled out and turned into a "real" FAQ with frequent distribution.
-
- 0.2 Information wanted:
-
- Anything that's missing here please add it in! I have more or less
- raided the PPP FAQ for structure, but there are large gaps as far as
- content goes. More to the point if someone else wants to take over
- vigorous maintenance of the document I'd be more than pleased....
-
-
- 1. INDEX TO THE FAQ:
-
- 2. What is MIME?
-
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 MIME features which may or may not be present
- 2.3 MIME glossary
- 2.4 MIME-relevant RFC's
-
- 3. How to:
- 3.1 Register a new MIME type
-
- 4. Real MIME questions with answers
-
- 5. Free MIME software packages.
-
- 5.1 free MIME FOR SunOS 4.1.x:
- 5.2 free MIME FOR BSD
- 5.3 free MIME for SYSVR4:
- 5.4 FREE MIME FOR MSDOS:
- 5.5 free MIME for AmigaOS:
- 5.6 free MIME for NeXT:
- 5.7 free MIME for Macintosh:
-
- 6. ftp sites for MIME stuff, docs etc.
-
- 7. Commercial MIME software packages.
-
- 8. MIME based mail relays for commercial mail services
- 8.1 Large national or international providers
- 8.2 Regional or local providers
-
- !9. (incomplete) Acknowledgements
-
-
- 2.2 MIME features that may or may not be present.
-
- Implementations of multi-media e-mail need not support the full spec;
- it's possible to have a useful product that does not explore all of
- the nooks and crannies of the standard.
-
- Here is a list of features that someone with a good, functional
- mail user agent might include for MIME support.
-
- 2.3 MIME glossary
-
- Every subculture needs its list of buzzwords, here's a start at a
- collection for MIME.
-
- MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
- PEM Privacy Enhanced Mail
- SMTP Simple Mail Transport Protocol
-
- 2.4 MIME-relevant RFCs and other standards
-
- The following RFCs are relevant to people building MIME software. Not
- all of them are standards per se, but you'd be wise to at least have
- looked at all of them.
-
- Current MIME stuff.
-
- (please help me out here -- this should at least also include basic
- RFC 822 stuff plus digest formats and all)
-
- 1341 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms for specifying
- and describing the format of Internet message bodies. Borenstein, N.;
- Freed, N. 1992 June; 69 p. (Format: TXT=211117, PS=347082 bytes)
- 1342 Representation of non-ASCII text in Internet message headers. Moore, K.
- 1992 June; 7 p. (Format: TXT=15845 bytes)
- 1343 User agent configuration mechanism for multimedia mail format
- information. Borenstein, N. 1992 June; 10 p. (Format: TXT=29295,
- PS=59978 bytes)
-
- Older pre-MIME efforts at internet multimedia e-mail
-
- 1197 Using ODA for translating multimedia information. Sherman, M. 1990
- December; 2 p. (Format: TXT=3620 bytes)
- 807 Multimedia mail meeting notes. Postel, J.B. 1982 February 9; 6 p.
- (Format: TXT=11633 bytes)
-
- 3. How to.
-
- 3.1 Register a new MIME datatype
-
- (description of IANA process)
-
- 4. Real MIME questions with answers
-
- 5. Free MIME software packages.
-
- (mention metamail)
-
- - MIXMH
-
- From: hta@boheme.er.sintef.no (Harald Tveit Alvestrand)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime,comp.mail.mh
- Subject: MIXMH: A version of XMH that supports MIME
- Date: 10 Dec 92 14:52:39 GMT
- Reply-To: harald.alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
-
- MIXMH version 0.2, a version of XMH that supports some MIME features,
- is available for anonymous FTP from aun.uninett.no
-
- Host: aun.uninett.no
- Directory: pub/unix
- Filename: mixmh-0.2.tar.Z
-
- This version is based on XMH version 1.6 from SEI, Carnegie Mellon.
- It supports sending MIME with extended character sets in the headers
- (per RFC-1342) and the body (per RFC-1341 text/plain).
- It has limited support for multipart messages.
-
- The source is freely redistributable and modifyable.
-
- As you can see from the version number, it is still not considered
- fully stable. Bugs may be reported to mixmh-bugs@uninett.no
- Information and discussion will take place on mixmh-info@uninett.no;
- mail to mixmh-info-request@uninett.no to join.
-
- --
- Harald Tveit Alvestrand
- Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
- C=no;PRMD=uninett;O=sintef;OU=delab;S=alvestrand;G=harald
- +47 7 59 70 94
-
- (mention pine)
- (mention MHN)
- (cover Amiga, other micro versions of same)
- (mention Eudora et al)
-
- 6. FTP sites for MIME information
-
- 7. Commercial MIME software packages.
-
- List of commercial products with released or announced support for
- MIME.
-
- - IBM multimedia mail for OS/2
-
- From: os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.)
- Date: 10 Dec 92 13:55:50 GMT
- Subject: IBM Developing Multimedia Mail
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
-
- I'm not going to follow this group, but I wanted to state that IBM - at
- the T.J. Watson Research Center - is developing a multimedia mail application
- for OS/2 which is based on the Mime spec. The demoed it at Interop.
-
- For more information, including (probably) how to become a test site (I
- haven't confirmed whether they're actually going to do this, but they've
- done it before), contact the department manager, Jerry Cuomo, at
- gcuomo@watson.ibm.com
-
- - CCMAIL (in version x.xx, due 93)
- - Innosoft PMDF (ready now?)
- - Z-Code Z-Mail (ready now?)
- - MIME relays for MSMAIL, etc?
- - others?
-
- 8. MIME based relays for commercial e-mail services
-
- 8.1 Large national or international providers
-
- (send mail to postmasters at each system asking?)
- - America On-line?
- - ATTMAIL ?
- - Compuserve ?
- - Dialog ?
- - Genie ?
- - MCI Mail?
- - Radiomail ?
- - Sprintmail ?
-
- (should coordinate this with the global e-mail list that is posted to
- comp.mail.misc)
-
- 8.2 Local or regional providers
-
- (should coordinate this with e.g. the PDIAL list)
-
- 9. Acknowlegements
-
- This is a very quick and dirty first pass at a list, I hope that it
- gets filled in with great details as time passes, but you have to
- start somewhere.
-
- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
- Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 998 GLOB
-
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