RFC 2049: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples

This set of documents, collectively called the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, or MIME, redefines the format of messages. This fifth and final document…

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Outgoing relationships (3 related RFCs)

Obsoletes — RFC 1521: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies
Obsoletes — RFC 1522: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Two: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
Obsoletes — RFC 1590: Media Type Registration Procedure

Incoming relationships (27 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 3851: Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Message Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5751: Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.2 Message Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5598: Internet Mail Architecture
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3801: Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2 (VPIMv2)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3965: A Simple Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5536: Netnews Article Format
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4823: FTP Transport for Secure Peer-to-Peer Business Data Interchange over the Internet
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4239: Internet Voice Messaging (IVM)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5616: Streaming Internet Messaging Attachments
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6109: La Posta Elettronica Certificata - Italian Certified Electronic Mail
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5322: Internet Message Format
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2047: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7231: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2183: Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header Field
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2231: MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2311: S/MIME Version 2 Message Specification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2421: Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2801: Internet Open Trading Protocol - IOTP Version 1.0
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2480: Gateways and MIME Security Multiparts
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2305: A Simple Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail
Informatively referenced by — RFC 1849: "Son of 1036": News Article Format and Transmission
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4263: Media Subtype Registration for Media Type text/troff
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9788: Header Protection for Cryptographically Protected Email
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2552: Architecture for the Information Brokerage in the ACTS Project GAIA
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3910: The SPIRITS (Services in PSTN requesting Internet Services) Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4416: Goals for Internet Messaging to Support Diverse Service Environments