[Dovecot] Search for substring in header?

[Dave Abrahams]

on Mon Oct 15 2012, Dave Abrahams <dave-AT-boostpro.com> wrote:

> 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?

Incidentally, if I turn of fts_lucene and turn on fts_squat, I get the
same result.

baffled-ly y'rs,

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