RFC 1820 (rfc1820) - Page 2 of 8
Multimedia E-mail (MIME) User Agent Checklist
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
RFC 1820 MIME User Agent Checklist August 1995
Getting test messages
For several tests in the checklist a test message is required. Test
messages can be requested in the following way: Send mail to [email protected]> with a subject field containing ONE of the
following:
text/plain
text/enriched
image/gif
image/jpeg
audio/basic
video/mpeg
application/octet-stream
application/postscript
message/rfc822
message/partial
message/external
multipart/mixed
multipart/parallel
multipart/digest
multipart/alternative
application/wordperfect5.1
application/msword
application/rtf
X-local
nested
iso-8859-1
A message containing the requested content-type will be returned to
the address contained in the from field.
References
The reader is encouraged to also check out the following references:
The MIME standards:
- Borenstein N. and N. Freed, "MIME (Multipurpose Internet
Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for specifying and
describing the format of Internet message bodies", RFC 1521,
Bellcore, Innosoft, September 1993.
- Moore K., "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part
Two: Message header extensions for non-Ascii text", RFC 1522,
University of Tennessee, September 1993.
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