MIME(1)

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💌 MIME(1) — okay bestie, listen up

so the manual name here is General Commands Manual, which is a little ironic because — plot twist — MIME is not a command. it's a format. screaming. anyway, hi, welcome, let's talk about the reason your emails can have pictures in them 💅

✨ NAME ✨

MIME — Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. yes, that MIME. the one doing all the work behind the scenes. no cap. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

Not a command -- see the SEE ALSO section for usable commands.

literally not a command. pls don't type MIME into your shell and expect anything to happen, bestie, it's giving nothing. the actual tools are down in SEE ALSO. 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so MIME is the official proposed standard format for extended Internet electronic mail. like, the standard. the whole vibe. 🔥

the MIME format permits email to include enhanced text, graphics, audio, and more — all in a standardized and interoperable manner. so when it works, it works everywhere, iykyk. and if you send and receive mail with a MIME-compliant mail system, you will be able to send and receive far more than ASCII text. more than ASCII text!! the bar was on the floor and MIME said no 💀🌈

various different people and companies are implementing MIME-compliant software. this man page was provided, by user request, as part of the freely-available "metamail" distribution from Bellcore. Metamail provides a complete MIME implementation — a whole icon 👑 — but there may well be others at your site, too. so like, check around. the "SEE ALSO" section only refers to the tools that came as part of the metamail distribution. only those. don't @ me about anything else 🙈

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

that's the squad. go read those if you want an actual command that actually does something 💖

so this part is the legal bit and legal bits do NOT get the sparkle treatment, they stay exactly as written — respect the icon:

Copyright (c) 1991 Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore) Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this material for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies, and that the name of Bellcore not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to this material without the specific, prior written permission of an authorized representative of Bellcore. BELLCORE MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR SUITABILITY OF THIS MATERIAL FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES.

translation: it's free, have fun, keep the notice, don't use Bellcore's name to sell stuff, and it comes with absolutely zero promises — "AS IS", no express or implied warranties, periodt. 😭

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bellcore. king behavior, fr fr 👑

and that's the page!! 🦋 shoutout to Release 1 for making this whole thing canon, mwah, ily, go send an email with a picture attached in it 💌✨

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