On 16.10.2012, at 6.45, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>>> According to the IMAP spec 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 t...@isocpp.org" produces a long list of messages.
>>
>> This specific problem can be solved by:
>>
>> plugin {
>> fts_lucene = whitespace_chars=@.
>> }
>
> OK, Google tells me that's documented at
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS/Lucene but I only found it now
> because I knew what to look for. I suggest doing something to make that
> more discoverable.
That is the only page where there is any information about fts-lucene. I made
it a bit clearer in that page now that whitespace_chars should be used as
default.
> This might be good enough for me, but still doesn't make it conforming
> to the IMAP spec, right? IIUC the spec says you can search for
> arbitrary strings without regard to word boundaries.
It doesn't conform to the IMAP spec, correct. But nobody cares about that
anymore. Everyone violates it.
