diff --git a/core/dovecot/conf/dovecot.conf b/core/dovecot/conf/dovecot.conf
index 4ea4fc43..be0035c7 100644
--- a/core/dovecot/conf/dovecot.conf
+++ b/core/dovecot/conf/dovecot.conf
@@ -69,9 +69,9 @@ plugin {
   fts_enforced = yes
   fts_autoindex_exclude = \Trash
   fts_autoindex_exclude1 = \Junk
-  fts_filters = normalizer-icu snowball stopwords
-  fts_filters_en = lowercase snowball english-possessive stopwords
-  fts_filters_fr = lowercase snowball contractions stopwords
+  fts_filters = normalizer-icu lowercase snowball stopwords
+  fts_filters_en = normalizer-icu lowercase snowball english-possessive stopwords
+  fts_filters_fr = normalizer-icu lowercase snowball contractions stopwords
   fts_header_excludes = Received DKIM-* ARC-* X-* x-* Comments Delivered-To Return-Path Authentication-Results Message-ID References In-Reply-To Thread-* Accept-Language Content-* MIME-Version
   {% if FULL_TEXT_SEARCH_ATTACHMENTS %}
   fts_tika = http://{{ FTS_ATTACHMENTS_ADDRESS }}:9998/tika/
diff --git a/towncrier/newsfragments/3279.misc b/towncrier/newsfragments/3279.misc
index 0120a32c..c7a3c655 100644
--- a/towncrier/newsfragments/3279.misc
+++ b/towncrier/newsfragments/3279.misc
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 Switch to alpine 3.20, remove a dependency on edge for dovecot
+Ensure we user normalizer-icu in all languages