[Dovecot] National symbols imap search

Patrick Nagel patrick.nagel at star-group.net
Wed May 20 05:59:16 EEST 2009


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Hi,

On 2009-05-19 23:32, Timo Sirainen wrote:
|> How does imap server should handle search requests with non latin
|> symbols?
|
| It should work correctly.
|
|> Rightnow thunderbird 2.0.0.21 and dovecot1.2rc3 are unable to
|> find any message if I try to search for cyrillic symbols.
|
| Check the IMAP traffic and make sure it specifies CHARSET in the SEARCH
| command.
|
|> fts, and squat plugins are enabled
|
| You could also try disabling these temporarily to see if they're causing
| the problem. They should handle UTF8 fine too though.

Indeed, searching for Chinese characters in the message body with Thunderbird
and dovecot+fts+squat works just fine here.

Patrick.

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