Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] SMTP Decode Defect?

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From: "Martin Regner" <martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 23:07:13 +0200
Mark Symons wrote:
<There seems to be a display issue with the 2nd last line of data.  
<There's a \r\n present in the data that is not represented in the decode.  
<Shorten the line and the \r\n does now display.  
<Is this a defect in Ethereal?

I think that this is due to that there will be a truncation when longer than ITEM_LABEL_LENGTH.

#define ITEM_LABEL_LENGTH 240

I have seen similar things with SIP captures with very long lines.

Maybe it would be good to make this length configurable somehow.