[ethereal-dev] SMTP Dissect routine

[Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

well, I have POP being dissected OK, but that gave me false hope that SMTP
would be as easy.

Unfortunately, it is not, and I believe that I need a state mechanism to
handle SMTP properly.

With POP I was able to look for the space separating a command and its arg
or a response and its arg (but I have not tested with enough data.

With SMTP, there are some odd bits, like the DATA command that has no
arguments and thus I can't search for a space, and then the actual data.  I
need to write a parser that figure out what we have been given, and it
needs to keep state!



Regards
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