Re: [Ethereal-dev] MAPI. Exchange 5.5.

[Charles N Wyble <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Ulf Lamping wrote:
>
>
> > Charles N Wyble wrote:
> >
> >
> > > All,
> > >
> > >    Hello. Let me introduce myself. My name is Charles Wyble. I am the
> > > lead developer on the open source exchange replacement project. I am
> > > working with lkcl (www.lkcl.net) on mapi and exchange reverse
> > > enginering. I would like to take over maitenence of the mapi
> > > dissector. Does any one have any objections to this? My website fyi is
> > > http://www.thewybles.com/~charles . I am in the process of writing up
> > > dociumenation on the whole exchange/mapi decode thing. Look for it
> > > within the next few weeks :)
> >
> > Hi Charles!
> >
> > The development model of Ethereal is: Someone (in this case you) are
> > developing some extensions to an existing dissector (or creates a new
> > one), and then creates and sends a patch to this list. One of the core
> > developers (probably not me) will review the patch and check it into the
> > subversion repository. However, it's always a good idea to ask this list
> > (as you've done :-) so double effort will be reduced if someone else is
> > working on the same topic.
> >
> > So patches are welcome :-)
>
>
> Why don't you send them to me? 
Hi Richard. We have talked before. Nice to interact once again. Sure. No 
problem with sending patches to you.
Also, are you aware of Tim Potter's work to
> auto-generate a dissector from IDL?
	Yes I sure am. It is a nice piece of work. I am slowly getting up to 
speed on the whole reverse engineering deal. There is ethereal. Then the 
samba tools. Then the tpot stuff. All very cool. All moving very fast. 
And I am in the middle of it trying to keep all the threads in view. And 
I simply love it!

> If you are working on generating the IDL, then Tim's work should help you
> reduce the development cycle.
Thank you for the pointer.
> Regards
> -----
> Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
> sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
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