[Dovecot] National symbols imap search

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue May 19 18:32:28 EEST 2009


On May 19, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Max Ivanov 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.


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