[Bug] FTS double escaping

[Aki Tuomi]

On 06.04.2017 14:58, azurit at pobox.sk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm trying to resolve few problems with indexing 'From' headers using
> FTS/Solr. I was tcpdumping the communication between Dovecot and
> Jetty/Solr and noticed that 'From' headers, which includes also
> sender's name, are double escaped. This is what was Dovecot sending to
> Solr:
>
> </field><field name="from">Name Surname
> &lt;test at example.com&gt;</field></doc></add>
>
> As you can see, characters < and > were escaped to < and > which
> were, again, escaped to &lt; and &gt;. This is doing problems
> while trying to index whole e-mail address, as Solr sees it as
> '<test at example.com>'.
>
> I spend hours trying to figure out why i'm able to search in all parts
> of e-mail addresses but searching for full and exact e-mail address
> was successfull ONLY for messages which doesn't include sender's name
> in 'From' header. Finally, after i found this bug, this fixed all
> search problems:
>
> <filter class="solr.PatternReplaceFilterFactory" pattern="&lt;"
> replacement=""/>
> <filter class="solr.PatternReplaceFilterFactory" pattern="&gt;"
> replacement=""/>
>
> I hope that, at least, this bug, reported by me, will be fixed. Thank
> you.
>
> azur

Hi!

Which dovecot version was this?

Aki