However, as mentioned above, MIME types are useful in other areas. The use of the World-Wide Web has become more exciting with the ability to launch dedicated programs, 'Viewers', which will treat messages as input for specific actions. In order to learn more about MIME, you might wish to look at the MIME WWW page for details. There is comprehensive documentation. MIME on electronic Mail MIME type messages will be displayed without notice if you use a program for mail reading which can handle these messages automatically.
MIME messages add special fields into the header in order to display multipart messages.
These fields are, if not explicitly considered, thrown away by the mailer and even MIME aware readers will fail to interpret the message. Try ECSMail . Pine files and documentation are available via FTP or WWW .