On 5.4.2021 15.15, Steve Dondley wrote: > I am brand new to solr and I'm interested in using sharing it between > several dovecot machines I'm running. I'm looking for some big picture > guidance on what I need to do to configure solr to work with the > different dovecot machines. So far, I managed to set up a single > "dovecot" core on the solr server and it is working with one of my > dovecot machines. > > I'm not sure how to proceed from here as I'm very unclear on how solr > maintains separate indexes for different users on my different > machines. Some basic questions I have are: > > 1) Do I need a new core for each of the dovecot machines I want to use > with solr? > 2) If not, how does solr ensure indexes for the different dovecot user > do not get comingled? > 3) If yes, how do I configure dovecot to tell it which solr core to use? > > Thanks. >
If the dovecot servers are serving same users, you can share the server. If not, then you need to use multiple cores. Each core has it's own entry point (URL). Aki