Rob Siemborski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 28 May 2004, Ted Cabeen wrote: > >> A number of my users have been reporting problems with searching. It >> seems like the Cyrus server is totally ignoring whitespace when >> performing searches. This behavior causes quite a few false positives >> in my searches. For example, a search for "logo" will return messages >> with the following subject: "Log of changes for ws....". This can >> make it very hard to find some messages. Is it possible to >> reconfigure Cyrus to not match results that cross word boundaries or >> to respect spaces? This behavior is pretty non-intuitive. > > No, it is not possible without changing the code. In many cases, its > better to give too many search results than too few.
How substantial of a code change would it be? I might be up for writing a patch if it didn't require widespread changes to the caching and database systems, which is probably over my head. > Of course, were are fast approaching the day where the search and sort > comparitors will require that we do stringprep on all the strings, and > that day will be very sad. When that day comes, will this no longer be a problem? How long is "fast approaching"? -- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Website or Keyserver for PGP/GPG Key BA0349D2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
