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I have now found out something with respect to searching in `from' and
`to' fields.

(For Norbert & Uli: I'm indexing my mail with freeWAIS-sf, and
specifying `SOUNDEX BOTH' in the format file for the `to' and `from'
fields.)

Running `dictionary mail_field_from' tells me that the dictionary
contains a lot of soundex codes (which is the right thing, since we
are specifying soundex in the format file).  And indeed, searching for
the soundex codes works:

/----
| $ waissearch -d mail from=m230
| 
|  Search Response:
|   NumberOfRecordsReturned: 16
|    1: Score: 3471, lines:  55 '445   /home-local/grossjoh/Mail/auto/linux-utf8/'
|    2: Score: 3471, lines: 111 '491   /home-local/grossjoh/Mail/auto/linux-utf8/'
|    3: Score: 3098, lines:  79 '3416   /home-local/grossjoh/Mail/auto/dbworld/'
| [...]
\----

But searching for normal terms does _not_ work.

Apparently, freeWAIS-sf is not applying soundex to the query.

Why could this be?

kai
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