[Dovecot] Search for substring in header?

[Dave Abrahams]

on Sun Oct 14 2012, Michael M Slusarz <slusarz-AT-curecanti.org> wrote:

> Quoting Dave Abrahams <dave at boostpro.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> According to the IMAP spec (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2060#page-37),
>> if I do a search for "TO isocpp.org" it should find all the messages
>> whose To: field contains the string "isocpp.org", but dovecot is
>> returning me an empty list.  However, a search for "TO tm at isocpp.org"
>> produces a long list of messages.  What am I doing wrong?
>
> First, you referenced the wrong RFC - RFC 2060 has been obsoleted by RFC 3501.

Thanks for pointing me to the right one.

> Second, your assumption is correct - TO should do a substring search.
> But this works fine for me (using version 2.1.10).

Using 2.1.6 and 2.1.9 built --with-clucene --with-libstemmer, I get the
same empty result with either of these two commands:

  UID SEARCH TO isocpp.org

  UID SEARCH TO "isocpp.org"

Am I formatting the command wrongly?

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