Multiple A Records for IMAP service

[Jiri Bourek]

On 29.8.2014 13:00, Alex Crow wrote:
> Hi Vijay,
>
> No, this will not work properly. 50% of the time the client will still
> try to connect to the downed server.
>
> You need something like keepalived or corosync/pacemaker.
>
> Cheers
>
> Alex
>

AFAIK some clients - with Thunderbird among them - will try the other IP 
address before reporting an error to the user.