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

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From: Nathan Neulinger <nneul@xxxxxxx>
Date: 23 May 2002 20:19:48 -0500
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 17:58, Guy Harris wrote:
> 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".

Given that it barely did anything more than show the direction of
packets, I'm more than happy to see it replaced with something actually
useful.

If you need a good supply of mapi data, I can supply a capture.

-- Nathan

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