Question

[Linux quiz]

Explain the purpose of MIME. How does it facilitate the use of a GUI?

Answer 1

- The MIME stands for Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions.

- It allows the users to exchange different kinds of data files on the Internet: audio, video, images, application programs as well.

- Customer use the protocol to exchange different types of data files on the internet which include audio, video, images, application programs.

- MIME is a kind of a supplementary or add on protocol which allows non-ASCII data to be sent through SMTP.

- Growing demand for Email Message as people also want to express in terms of Multimedia. So, MIME another email application is introduced as it is not restricted to textual data.

- MIME provided support for varying content types and multi-part messages.

- For example, the MIME type image/jpeg is typically associated with an image viewer for GUI. Using a MIME type, a file manager or other program can automatically open a window appropriate to the file it is opening. Thus a PDF file would be opened with xpdf and a PostScript file will open with ghostview.