Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] MAPI

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 15:58:57 -0700
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:52:09PM -0400, Todd Sabin wrote:
> Not true.  It just uses a dynamic port.  It's probably the case that a
> given exchange server will initially grab the same port every boot,
> provided the same services start in the same order, etc.  It sounds
> like your exchange server gets 1065 that way, but, e.g., mine is
> listening on 1045.

Replace "mine" with "Nathan Neulinger's" there; he's the original author
of the MAPI, and he'd wired it to port 1065.

Given that 1065 *isn't* a hard-wired MAPI port, I'd say "just get rid of
the existing MAPI dissector, and treat it as Yet Another DCERPC
Application".