Tested in Debian 8 / Dovecot 2.2
In a environment with Dovecot and Mysql as backend, if you have several mysql servers in replication mode (cluster, master-master, master-slave …), you can configure dovecot to connect to these servers, so if one of them falls, dovecot will try to connect the next available one.
This is made in the configuration file of the mysql connection, in the connect parameter, host var:
~ $ cd /etc/dovecot ~ $ cat dovecot-sql.conf.ext ... driver = mysql connect = host=server1 host=server2 host=server3 dbname=mysql-db user=mysql-user password=mysql-password ...