Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
>
> It appears that searching the body of messages with whitespace is
> broken; this is a general bug affecting Cyrus and not just the
> archive.* folders on cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu.
>
> I haven't tracked down the problem yet.
See bug #55. This goes back to a big can of worms we've discussed a few
times before.
>
> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:27:19 -0700
> From: Devin Reade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: GNO Consortium
>
> David Bosso pointed out in private email that the 8000 message folder
> was likely the uw-imap mailing list, not this one. Yes, the 8000 count
> was for that list, but this one is close.
>
> He also mentioned that his searches were working fine. Curious, I went
> back and did some further searches. A bit of experimentation seems
> to indicate that the problem was with searching for phrases rather than
> individual words. A search on "Medical Center" (from a randomly picked .sig)
> shows only one hit. However, having a two parameter search for "Medical"
> and "Center" gives a lot of hits.
>
> I don't know the cause of this distinction, nor whether it is the fault
> of the client or server. Maybe it's the encoding of the whitespace by the
> client, which isn't getting interpreted the same way on the server.
> Just a WAG.
>
> Anyway, knowing that gotcha, I can now do suitable searches on these
> archives. Thanks for the help.
>
> FWIW, the client used for testing was Linux Netscape 4.72.
> --
> Devin Reade [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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