Hi, I deliver a test email (with 4 spaces in subject) into a maildir:
Return-Path: <u...@example.com> Delivered-To: <u...@example.com> Received: from suse11 ([10.0.8.7]) by suse11 (Dovecot) with LMTP id Pf6zDTCaiFOUXwAA4Q5jHg for <u...@example.com>; Fri, 30 May 2014 16:48:16 +0200 From: <u...@example.com> To: <u...@example.com> Message-ID: <9704bc6a-28d9-cbf2-a1d6-dd54f6aa9...@newsvilpec.babel.it> Subject: Test 4 Spaces Test But, if i search this email with 4 spaces in subject i don't find anthing: telnet 0 143 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. ab login u...@example.com password ab OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS SPECIAL-USE BINARY MOVE QUOTA ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in ab select inbox * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft PEC_INBOX) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft PEC_INBOX \*)] Flags permitted. * 1 EXISTS * 1 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1401785069] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 2] Predicted next UID ab OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed (0.002 secs). a1 SEARCH CHARSET UTF-8 SUBJECT "Test 4 Spaces" * SEARCH a1 OK Search completed (0.001 secs). a1 SEARCH CHARSET UTF-8 SUBJECT "Test 4 Spaces" * SEARCH 1 a1 OK Search completed (0.000 secs). ab logout * BYE Logging out ab OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. If i run the search with one space i find a mail. I use dovecot v2.2.12 on Linux suse11 x86_64 Thanks