What binary coding is used most often for e-mail purposes?
What binary coding is used most often for e-mail purposes?
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is the most often used binary coding for e-mail purposes. It allows for various types of content, including text and binary attachments, to be transmitted via email by encoding them into text format. MIME supports a wide variety of file types and is an essential standard in modern email communication.
Yes UUENCODE and MIME are both appropriate for attachments, however, the EC Council ebook deals with RFC 5322, while UUENCODE falls under RFC 822. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/developer/exchange-server-2010/aa494197(v=exchg.140)
This question needs verification, because UUENCODE could also be correct. I'm personally not sure which is the more appropriate answer.
MIME is most often used. The program uudecode reverses the effect of uuencode, recreating the original binary file exactly. uuencode/decode became popular for sending binary (and especially compressed) files by email and posting to Usenet newsgroups, etc. It has now been largely replaced by MIME and yEnc. With MIME, files that might have been uuencoded are instead transferred with Base64 encoding.