Quickly Understanding the MIME Format of Email

The format of email is MIME. A simple MIME message consists of headers followed by a body.  For example, here’s a simple text/plain email: From: sender@example.com To: recipient@example.com Subject: Example Email Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”UTF-8″ Hello, This is a simple plain text email. Regards, Sender MIME can be multipart. Here’s a text/plain email with a PDF attachment: From: sender@example.com To: recipient@example.com […]