Hi Gary, Thanks for swift reply. Your solution works in that it fixes the 'search' problem, but it means that I can't view the attachments with 'v' - there needs to be a way to use 'switch' in the mailcap, or get mutt to use different mailcaps in different contexts.
Cheers, On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Gary Johnson <garyj...@spocom.com> wrote: > On 2012-05-29, Xylo Drum wrote: >> I have a pretty much default mutt setup including some very simple >> lines in my .mailcap such as: >> >> image/jpg; xview %s >> image/jpeg; xview %s >> >> these work fine for viewing images, but when trying to do a 'l' search >> with a pattern of ~bfoo mutt keeps throwing up >> >> mailcap entry for type image/jpeg not found > > Mutt is looking for a rule in your .mailcap for converting > image/jpeg attachments to plain text. Such rules must contain the > 'copiousoutput' flag. Unless you have some meaningful way of > generating text from a JPEG image, you may need to add some sort of > no-op rule like this (untested): > > image/jpeg; true; copiousoutput > > just to give mutt something to execute. > > Regards, > Gary >
