Attachment MIME Types

As explained in the Attachments Tab section, there are four types of attachment viewers in the Message Browser: Text, Image, DICOM, and PDF. The type s of attachment corresponding with these viewers are:

• text/*: Plain textual data.
• image/*: Image data (JPGs, PNGs, etc.).
• DICOM: A special (not strictly MIME) type reserved for DICOM attachment data.
• application/pdf: PDF data.

The * is a wildcard, signifying that anything can be present there. For example, if you are reading in RTF data, the appropriate MIME type would be text/rtf, which matches the text/* type when the message browser is searching for an attachment viewer.

Note that when extracting / creating attachments, you can use any type you want. It has no effect on how the data is stored or reattached (except for the DICOM special case), only how it is displayed in the message browser.