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These are some buzzwords that will be used in the following text.
- ``Encoded data'' is binary data encoded by one of the methods
``uuencoding'', ``xxencoding'', ``Base64'' or ``BinHex''.
- ``Message'' refers to both complete email messages and Usenet news
postings, including the complete headers. The format of a message is
described in [RFC0822]. A ``message body'' is an email message
or news posting without headers.
- A ``mail folder'' is a number of concatenated messages.
- ``MIME'' refers to the standards set in [RFC1521].
- A ``multipart message'' is an entity described by the MIME
standard. It is a single message divided into one or more individual
parts by a unique boundary.
- A ``partial message'' is also described by the MIME standard. It is a
message with an associated identifier and a part number. Large
messages can be split into multiple partial messages on the sender's
side. The recipient's software groups the partial messages by their
identifier and composes them back into the original large message.
- The term ``partial message'' only refers to one part of the
large message. The original, partialized message is referred to as
``multi-part message'' (note the hyphen). To clarify, one part of a
multi-part message is a partial message.
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