I have to problem with the extended webtop search:
The extended search is MUCH slower than the quick search. The quick search gives results almost immedatly, whereas the extended search for just the subject (not full text) takes much longer.
Even then, the results are not the same. Extended often says: “no results” but quick search shows lots of them.
The effect is that the search at some point loops without continuing to deliver results. Seems slow it’s actually blocked.
If your advanced search gets to the bottom and provides different results from the quick search it might just depend on the search key used.
On dovecot the FTS plugin is active by default and this causes the need to use only search keywords with whole and not partial words to have consistent results from the search.