mimemap specifies the file name extension to MIME type
mappings.
For file names without an extension, or with an unknown one, the MIME type is
optionally determined by inspecting the file contents. This is controlled by the
usesystemfilecommand configuration variable. Depending on a compile time
option, Recoll then either executes a system command, or uses the magic
library.
On most platforms, and always on Windows, Recoll is built to use
libmagic. Otherwise, the command used is either file
or xdg-mime, and can be configured by setting the
systemfilecommand variable.
All extension values in mimemap must be entered in lower
case. File names extensions are lower-cased for comparison during indexing, meaning that an
upper case mimemap entry will never be matched.
The mappings can be specified on a per-subtree basis, which may be useful in some
cases. Example: okular notes have a .xml
extension but should be handled specially, which is possible because they are usually all
located in one place. Example:
[~/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata] .xml = application/x-okular-notes
See also the noContentSuffixes configuration variable, for
specifying file name extensions for which no content indexing will be performed.
