[Dovecot] Disable/patch iOS7 Full Body Search

[Chris Laif]

Hi, I wonder if anyone has done some research on this subject. Apple
users are complaining loudly [1] about being not able to search the
inbox since Apple did not change the brain-dead
full-body-search-behaviour in iOS 7.1.

Chris

[1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5323188?start=30&tstart=0



On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Chris Laif <chris.laif at googlemail.com> wrote:
> As mentioned in other posts [1], iOS7 Mail App uses a multi-folder
> full body search by default. As to my knowledge, this behavior cannot
> be disabled within the Mail App.
>
> Is there any way to disable/patch this behavior on the server side? My
> users complain that searching now takes 'forever'. They were happy
> with the old behavior (searching From/To/Subject only).
>
> I do NOT want to setup/maintain a dovecot FTS. I just want to have the
> 'old' behavior.
>
> Chris
>
>
> [1 ]http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/17/ios-7-mail-app-uses-multi-folder-body-searches-by-default/
> ("Our plan at FastMail is to detect iOS clients, and convert all
> searches into FUZZY searches.")