ITPEC FE Morning April 2020 Question 35
ITPEC FE Morning April 2020 — Question 35 of 80
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) — Internet standard that extends email format to support non-ASCII text, audio, video, and images.
MIME adds headers to email messages that describe the content type and encoding, allowing attachments and multilingual text over the ASCII-only SMTP protocol.
Why not others:
- (a) HTML — markup language for web pages, not an email format standard
- (b) MHS — Message Handling System (X.400), an older messaging framework unrelated to extending email format
- (d) SMTP — protocol for sending email; supports only ASCII by itself — MIME extends it
Key rule: SMTP sends mail, MIME extends its format for rich content.
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