On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:51:57 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> One difference: mailcap seems to be about displaying/editing data to the
> user (including, for example, opening a graphical window to display a
> JPEG), whereas we need to set up a mechanism to convert whatever kind of
> document we get into plain text to feed it into xapian.  So we couldn't
> fully piggy-back on the mailcap infrastructure, if i'm reading the
> mailcap documentation correctly.  notmuch would need to use its own
> mime-types file.

I think you're right that the mailcap is for instructing mail programs
how to display non-text parts to the user.  See mailcap(5) man page (at
least in Debian).

And we need something like:

jpg2thousandwords

jamie.