On 2012-05-29, Xylo Drum wrote:
> 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.
> 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.
Did you use the copiousoutput rule in addition to your original
rule, or did you replace the original rule by the copiousoutput
rule? You can and should use both, e.g.,
image/jpeg; xview %s
image/jpeg; true; copiousoutput
See
http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/#mime
for a little more on this.
Regards,
Gary
