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RFC 2049: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples

In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC

This set of documents, collectively called the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, or MIME, redefines the format of messages. This fifth and final document describes MIME conformance criteria as well as providing some illustrative examples of MIME message formats, acknowledgements, and the bibliography. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

Document record

Document ID
RFC2049
Published
November 1996
Authors
N. Freed; N. Borenstein
Status
DRAFT STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
app
Pages
24
Also known as
—
Obsoletes:
RFC 1521, RFC 1522, RFC 1590

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Standards lineage

This document is one revision in a chain of 13 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

  1. RFC 1341 (1992)
  2. RFC 1342 (1992)
  3. RFC 1521 (1993)
  4. RFC 1522 (1993)
  5. RFC 1590 (1994)
  6. RFC 2045 (1996)
  7. RFC 2046 (1996)
  8. RFC 2047 (1996)
  9. RFC 2048 (1996)
  10. RFC 2049 (1996)
  11. RFC 4288 (2005)
  12. RFC 4289 (2005)
  13. RFC 6838 (2013) ✓

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