diff --git a/tests/indexedmimetypes/indexedmimetypes.sh b/tests/indexedmimetypes/indexedmimetypes.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+topdir=`dirname $0`/..
+. $topdir/shared.sh
+
+initvariables $0
+
+RECOLL_CONFDIR=$topdir/$myname
+export RECOLL_CONFDIR
+logfilename=$toptmp/$myname.log
+
+sharedconf() {
+cat > recoll.conf <<EOF
+topdirs = $tstdata/html $tstdata/txt
+logfilename=$logfilename
+loglevel = 6
+
+EOF
+}
+###########
+# End boilerplate
+
+
+sharedconf
+cat >> recoll.conf <<EOF
+indexedmimetypes = text/plain
+indexallfilenames = 0
+EOF
+
+recollindex -z
+
+(
+# text files are indexed 
+recollq shorty
+# html ones are not (not even the names)
+recollq qtextedit
+) 2> $mystderr | egrep -v '^Recoll query: ' > $mystdout
+
+sharedconf
+cat >> recoll.conf <<EOF
+indexedmimetypes = text/plain
+indexallfilenames = 1
+EOF
+
+recollindex -z
+
+(
+# text files are indexed 
+recollq shorty
+# html ones are not (but the names are)
+recollq qtextedit
+recollq template
+) 2> $mystderr | egrep -v '^Recoll query: ' >> $mystdout
+
+diff -w ${myname}.txt $mystdout > $mydiffs 2>&1
+
+checkresult
diff --git a/tests/indexedmimetypes/indexedmimetypes.txt b/tests/indexedmimetypes/indexedmimetypes.txt
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+1 results
+text/plain	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/txt/liste.txt]	[liste.txt]	1182	bytes	
+0 results
+1 results
+text/plain	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/txt/liste.txt]	[liste.txt]	1182	bytes	
+1 results
+text/html	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/html/qtextedit.html]	[qtextedit.html]	108921	bytes	
+0 results