13.5.1.1 Message Construction

A simple message consists of a header and a body. The header is at the top of the message and contains certain control information such as date, subject, sender, and recipient. The body is everything after the first blank line after the header. MIME specifies a way to construct more complex messages which can contain multiple body parts, and even body parts nested within body parts. Messages like these are called multi-part messages, and, as mentioned earlier, the conversion channel performs body part-by-body part processing of messages.