> No, forget about that patch. Looks like I forgot I had already fixed this

> crash, and I guess I was testing with master mainly, which is why I wasn't

> able to reproduce the crash now:

> https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/c0583917fe760b2d901acf83387cc8edb6f9

> 9550

> <https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/c0583917fe760b2d901acf83387cc8edb6f

> 99550>

You nailed it!

I've applied the fix from commit c058 and that solved the issue. I'm no longer able to crash the director by stopping/starting a backend.