Solr 7

[M. Koehler]

Hi Jose,

Am 11.10.2017 um 13:13 schrieb Jose Celestino:
>> Before I go down the route of upgrading our main Solr instance from 6 to 7,
>> just checking if anyone is using Solr 7 with Dovecot.
> SOLR 7 works ok with dovecot. We did not upgrade but indexed from scratch with
> 7.0.0.
>
>  From our experience:
>
> Make sure that you set the default queryResponseWriter to XML on
> solrconfig.xml:
>
>       <queryResponseWriter name="xml"
>                            default="true"
>                            class="solr.XMLResponseWriter" />
>
> Because the default response type is now JSON instead of XML and I don't think
> dovecot sends a wt=xml to make it explicit.
>
> Also, consider going to 7.0.1 because 7.0.0 could not read indexes from 6.x
> versions. As I said we did a reindex so we were unharmed by that bug but just
> saw it on the 7.0.1 changelog.

could you please provide more informations about the installation from 
scratch? The documentations I´ve found are all outdated and doesn´t work :(.

Thanks,
Michael