On Mon, Jan 11, 2021, at 9:02 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
Have you enabled search_fuzzy_always? If not, do so and repeat your test.
Other than changing your client to use FUZZY for SEARCH, this is the right approach.
There are several issues with Xapian currently, the big one being that by default it is only used for fuzzy searches.
Just curious, what issues are you referring to?
On a related note: there is a fix for squat backend search in the works and it looks quite promising. I'll backport it to the 3.4 branch https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/pull/3316
