[Dovecot] segfault - (imap|pop3)-login during nessus scan

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 15:28 -0600, Todd Rinaldo wrote:
> pop3-login[24451]: segfault at 000000000000000c rip 0000003c7de610a2 rsp 00007fff07116968 error 4
> 
> I'm having a really hard time getting a core dump

Yeah, it's difficult to get login processes to core dump. In v1.2 it's
easier though. But there's an alternative way to get the backtrace:

First set login_process_per_connection=no. Then:

gdb -p `pidof imap-login`
cont
<wait for crash>
bt full

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