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How attachments are send through mail?.
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 8:12 am
by selvamdoom
How attachments are send through mail? and how the mail servers get that attachments?. For example i send a picture from a gmail id to a yahoo id how the yahoo server get that picture? and view that picture? because yahoo and gmail are different servers and that web sites are developed in different languages and different platforms also. please clear my doubt.
Re: How attachments are send through mail?.
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 9:20 am
by Darhazer
Wikipedia wrote:An e-mail attachment (or email attachment) is a computer file which is sent along with an e-mail message. The file is not a separate message, but now it is almost universally sent as part of the message to which it is attached. Attached messages may be sent in unencoded form, or encoded in a number of ways: base64, binhex, uuencoding, quoted-printable. In MIME, the standard Internet e-mail format, messages and their attachments are sent as a single multipart message, usually using base64 encoding for non-text attachments.
Hope this is helpful. There is a lot you can read about e-mail and attachments, but the basics are those. By the way file uploading usually works in similar way - multipart messages
