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+A start for a more detailed data-structure to keep knowledge about
+various data types are defined by MIME. Some basic treatments with
+mime types are implemented.
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+The first special data item is whether a data type is binary or ascii.
+This is required for correctly encoding e-mail attachments, and
+implemented for the Mail::Box v2.01 module.