Question

the advantages of using MIME & UU encode

Answer 1

MIME stands for (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions). It is widely used internet standard for coding binary files to send them as e-mail attachments over the internet. MIME allows an E-mail message to contain a non-ASCII file such as a video image or a sound and it provides a mechanism to transfer a non text characters to text characters.
MIME was invented to overcome the following limitations of SMTP:

1. SMTP cannot transfer executable files and binary objects.
2. SMTP cannot transmit text data of other language, e.g. French, Japanese, Chinese etc, as these are represented in 8-bit codes.
3. SMTP services may reject mails having size greater than a certain size.
4. SMTP cannot handle non-textual data such as pictures, images, and video/audio content.

            

• The MIME specification includes the following elements: 

1. Message header fields. Five message header fields are defined. These fields provide information about the body of the message.
2. Content formats. A number of content formats are defined, thus standardizing representations that support multimedia electronic mail.
3. Transfer encoding. Transfer encoding are defined that enable the conversion of any content format into a form that is protected from alteration by the mail system.

Traditional e-mail sent over the Internet using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) as specified by Request for Comments (The IETF standards documents are called RFC) 822 defines messages as consisting of a header and a body part, both of which are encoded using 7-bit ASCII text encoding. The header of an SMTP message consists of a series of field/value pairs that are structured so that the message can be delivered to its intended recipient. The body is unstructured text and contains the actual message.

Answer 2

Explanation:

the advantages of mime & uu encode