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Skie · 01-08-2008, 09:09 AM

Attachments are converted into MIME format and transfered during the SMTP connection as part of the DATA transmission. You can read up more about it on these links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_attachment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smtp

01-08-2008, 09:09 AM	#2 (permalink)
Skie Manager, Alternative Comp Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Downers Grove, IL Posts: 1,821 OS: Gentoo Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux, CentOS My System	Re: How do email attachments work? Attachments are converted into MIME format and transfered during the SMTP connection as part of the DATA transmission. You can read up more about it on these links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_attachment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smtp __________________