Kevin Maguire wrote:
Hi
I have copied a folder full of messages from a UW-IMAP server to a Cyrus IMAP server. If I use search from my client (Thunderbird on Linux), I get different results for the same search against the folder on the 2 servers. I show the log of both sessiosn, (I checked by telnet <bla> 143 to verify it wasn't a client issue)
What I am misunderstanding about the IMAP protocol here, or the Cyrus implementation, if anything? RFC 2060 + 3501 say:
6.4.4. SEARCH Command
In all search keys that use strings, a message matches the key if the string is a substring of the field. The matching is case- insensitive.
Note that my search string was "oneforall" and, as I see it, should only match one message (#215, returned by both servers). However the closely related string "one for all" appears in the other messages returned from cyrus-imap but not from uw-imap. Is it helpfully doing a "fuzzy" search for me? Is it allowed to do that without me asking?
The Cyrus SEARCH engine ignores whitespace as part of its charset translation (it is my understanding that whitespace has no meaning in some/all of the far east languages) and therefore will give you some false positives.
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