Re: Email Handling and Manipulation Question 7

[Dan Kelly]

Under which of the following circumstances is the Content-Transfer-
Encoding MIME header
used?

A. Only when sending non-plaintext (ASCII) data to specify the
encoding of the MIME
segment
B. To indicate special formatting of the e-mail, such as if it is to
be rendered as HTML,
plain text, or rich text
C. It can be used at any time to specify the encoding of any segment
of the MIME email
D. It can only be used to specify the encoding format (such as base64)
of binary
segments of a MIME e-mail.
E. None of the above

[Seal Trip]

Going with C.

[Dan Kelly]

The correct answer is C. The Content-Transfer-Encoding MIME header is
used to specify the
encoding of any segment of a MIME email. This header is most commonly
associated with
binary data to specify the algorithm used to encode it. By default,
7bit, quoted-printable,
base64, 8bit and binary are available—however, anyone may specify
their own encoding
format using a name similar to x-<unique name for encoding>.