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Originally, ARPANET, UUCP, and Internet SMTP email allowed 7-bit ASCII text only. Text files were emailed by including them in the message body. In the mid 1980s text files could be grouped with UNIX tools such as bundle [1] [2] and shar (shell archive) [3] and included in email message bodies, allowing them to be unpacked on remote UNIX systems with a single shell command.
Email software that complies with RFC 2822 is only required to support plain text, not HTML formatting. Sending HTML formatted emails can therefore lead to problems if the recipient's email client does not support it. In the worst case, the recipient will see the HTML code instead of the intended message.
2. In the "To" field, type the name or email address of your contact. 3. In the "Subject" field, type a brief summary of the email. 4. Type your message in the body of the email. 5. Click Send. Want to write your message using the full screen? Click the Expand email icon at the top of the message.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is a standard that extends the format of email messages to support text in character sets other than ASCII, as well as attachments of audio, video, images, and application programs. Message bodies may consist of multiple parts, and header information may be specified in non-ASCII character sets.
- Your computer's file manager will open. Find and select the file or image you'd like to attach. Click Open. The file or image will be attached below the body of the email. If you'd like to insert an image directly into the body of an email, check out the steps in the "Insert images into an email" section of this article.
Send up to 15 Megabytes of attached files in one email. 1. Launch Desktop Gold. 2. Sign on with your username and password. 3. Click the Write icon at the top of the window. 4. Click Attach File to select a file or drag and drop a file into the email compose area.
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Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format or TNEF is a proprietary email attachment format used by Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Server.An attached file with TNEF encoding is most often named winmail.dat or win.dat, and has a MIME type of Application/MS-TNEF.