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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 index c031968b0..266495b44 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 @@ -1188,12 +1188,12 @@ this behavior by setting \fICURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPRT(3)\fP to zero. .SH "MIME API revisited for SMTP and IMAP" In addition to support HTTP multi-part form fields, the MIME API can be used -to build structured e-mail messages and send them via SMTP or append such +to build structured email messages and send them via SMTP or append such messages to IMAP directories. -A structured e-mail message may contain several parts: some are displayed +A structured email message may contain several parts: some are displayed inline by the MUA, some are attachments. Parts can also be structured as -multi-part, for example to include another e-mail message or to offer several +multi-part, for example to include another email message or to offer several text formats alternatives. This can be nested to any level. To build such a message, you prepare the nth-level multi-part and then include @@ -1202,19 +1202,19 @@ it as a source to the parent multi-part using function bound to its parent multi-part, a nth-level multi-part belongs to it and should not be freed explicitly. -E-mail messages data is not supposed to be non-ascii and line length is -limited: fortunately, some transfer encodings are defined by the standards -to support the transmission of such incompatible data. Function +Email messages data is not supposed to be non-ascii and line length is +limited: fortunately, some transfer encodings are defined by the standards to +support the transmission of such incompatible data. Function \fIcurl_mime_encoder(3)\fP tells a part that its source data must be encoded before being sent. It also generates the corresponding header for that part. -If the part data you want to send is already encoded in such a scheme, -do not use this function (this would over-encode it), but explicitly set the +If the part data you want to send is already encoded in such a scheme, do not +use this function (this would over-encode it), but explicitly set the corresponding part header. Upon sending such a message, libcurl prepends it with the header list set with \fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP, as 0th-level mime part headers. -Here is an example building an e-mail message with an inline plain/html text +Here is an example building an email message with an inline plain/html text alternative and a file attachment encoded in base64: .nf |