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+.. index::
+   single: MIME
+   single: MIME Messages
+   single: Components; MIME
+
+The Mime Component
+==================
+
+    The MIME component allows manipulating the MIME messages used to send emails.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+.. code-block:: terminal
+
+    $ composer require symfony/mime
+
+Alternatively, you can clone the `<https://github.com/symfony/mime>`_ repository.
+
+.. include:: /components/require_autoload.rst.inc
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+`MIME`_ (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is an Internet standard that
+extends the original basic format of emails to support features like:
+
+* Headers and text contents using non-ASCII characters;
+* Message bodies with multiple parts (e.g. HTML and plain text contents);
+* Non-text attachments: audio, video, images, PDF, etc.
+
+The entire MIME standard is complex and huge, but Symfony abstracts all that
+complexity to provide two ways of creating MIME messages:
+
+* A high-level API based on the :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Mime\\Email` class
+  to quickly create email messages with all the common features;
+* A low-level API based on the :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Mime\\Message` class
+  to have an absolute control over every single part of the email message.
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+Use the :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Mime\\Email` class and their *chainable*
+methods to compose the entire email message::
+
+    use Symfony\Component\Mime\Email;
+
+    $email = (new Email())
+        ->from('[email protected]')
+        ->to('[email protected]')
+        ->cc('[email protected]')
+        ->bcc('[email protected]')
+        ->replyTo('[email protected]')
+        ->priority(1)
+        ->subject('Important Notification')
+        ->text('Lorem ipsum...')
+        ->html('<h1>Lorem ipsum</h1> <p>...</p>')
+    ;
+
+This purpose of this component is to create the email messages. Use the
+:doc:`Mailer component </components/mailer>` to actually send them. In Symfony
+applications, it's easier to use the :doc:`Mailer integration </email>`.
+
+Email Addresses
+---------------
+
+All the methods that require email addresses (``from()``, ``to()``, etc.) accept
+both strings and objects::
+
+    // ...
+    use Symfony\Component\Mime\Address;
+    use Symfony\Component\Mime\NamedAddress;
+
+    $email = (new Email())
+        // email address as a simple string
+        ->from('[email protected]')
+
+        // email address as an object
+        ->from(new Address('[email protected]'))
+
+        // email address as an object (email clients will display the name
+        // instead of the email address)
+        ->from(new NamedAddress('[email protected]', 'Fabien'))
+
+        // ...
+    ;
+
+Multiple addresses are defined with the ``addXXX()`` methods::
+
+    $email = (new Email())
+        ->to('[email protected]')
+        ->addTo('[email protected]')
+        ->addTo('[email protected]')
+
+        // ...
+    ;
+
+Alternatively, you can pass multiple addresses to each method::
+
+    $toAddresses = ['[email protected]', new Address('[email protected]')];
+
+    $email = (new Email())
+        ->to(...$toAddresses)
+        ->cc('[email protected]', '[email protected]')
+
+        // ...
+    ;
+
+Message Contents
+----------------
+
+.. TODO
+
+
+Embedding Images
+----------------
+
+If you want to display images inside your email contents, you must embed them
+instead of adding them as attachments. First, use the ``embed()`` or
+``embedFromPath()`` method to add an image from a file or resource::
+
+    $email = (new Email())
+        // ...
+        // get the image contents from a PHP resource
+        ->embed(fopen('/path/to/images/logo.png', 'r'), 'logo')
+        // get the image contents from an existing file
+        ->embedFromPath('/path/to/images/signature.gif', 'footer-signature')
+    ;
+
+The second optional argument of both methods is the image name ("Content-ID" in
+the MIME standard). Its value is an arbitrary string used later to reference the
+images inside the HTML contents::
+
+    $email = (new Email())
+        // ...
+        ->embed(fopen('/path/to/images/logo.png', 'r'), 'logo')
+        ->embedFromPath('/path/to/images/signature.gif', 'footer-signature')
+        // reference images using the syntax 'cid:' + "image embed name"
+        ->html('<img src="cid:logo" /> ... <img src="cid:footer-signature" /> ...')
+    ;
+
+File Attachments
+----------------
+
+Use the ``attachFromPath()`` method to attach files that exist in your file system::
+
+    $email = (new Email())
+        // ...
+        ->attachFromPath('/path/to/documents/terms-of-use.pdf')
+        // optionally you can tell email clients to display a custom name for the file
+        ->attachFromPath('/path/to/documents/privacy.pdf', 'Privacy Policy')
+        // optionally you can provide an explicit MIME type (otherwise it's guessed)
+        ->attachFromPath('/path/to/documents/contract.doc', 'Contract', 'application/msword')
+    ;
+
+Alternatively you can use the ``attach()`` method to attach contents generated
+with PHP resources::
+
+    $email = (new Email())
+        // ...
+        ->attach(fopen('/path/to/documents/contract.doc', 'r'))
+    ;
+
+Message Headers
+---------------
+
+.. TODO
+
+
+Raw Message Composition
+-----------------------
+
+Before continuing, it's important to have a look at the low level structure of
+an email message. Consider a message which includes some content as both text
+and HTML, a single PNG image included in those contents and a PDF file attached
+to it. The MIME standard structures that message as the following tree:
+
+.. code-block:: text
+
+    multipart/mixed
+    ├── multipart/related
+    │   ├── multipart/alternative
+    │   │   ├── text/plain
+    │   │   └── text/html
+    │   └── image/png
+    └── application/pdf
+
+This is the purpose of each MIME message part:
+
+* ``multipart/alternative``: used when two or more parts are alternatives of the
+  same (or very similar) content. The preferred format must be added last.
+* ``multipart/mixed``: used to send different content types in the same message,
+  such as when attaching files.
+* ``multipart/related``: used to indicate that each message part is a component
+  of an aggregate whole. The most common usage is to display images embedded
+  in the message contents.
+
+.. TODO
+
+Learn More
+----------
+
+.. TODO: link to Twig integration, etc.
+
+.. _`MIME`: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME