Hello, AFAIK a known problem with newer Apache Solr versions. If you patch Dovecots solr-schema.xml Dovecot will work with Solr 4.10.3: --- solr-schema.xml 2015-01-05 09:12:51.080196122 +0100 +++ /home/solr/solr/example/solr/collection1/conf/schema.xml 2015-01-05 09:31:48.320206660 +0100 @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ <field name="cc" type="text" indexed="true" stored="false" /> <field name="bcc" type="text" indexed="true" stored="false" /> <field name="subject" type="text" indexed="true" stored="false" /> + <field name="text" type="text" indexed="true" stored="false" /> <!-- Used by Solr internally: --> <field name="_version_" type="long" indexed="true" stored="true"/> This patch was created regarding Dovecot 2.2.15, for Dovecot configuration please follow instructions at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS/Solr Christian