On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Julien Kerihuel
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 12:13 -0800, Harsha wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just started looking into openchange and first want to thank all the
>> contributors for giving us openchange and the related projects.
>>
>> As a first step to contributing to the mapiproxy project, I'm reading
>> documents on openchange.org and MS Specifications. I have worked on
>> CIFS in the past and would like to take a similar approach of looking
>> at the packet captures simultaneously. So my question to the list is
>> suggestions for looking into the packet captures. I looked at
>> Wireshark support for MAPI here -
>> http://www.wireshark.org/docs/dfref/m/mapi.html
>> Looks like thre are not many fields supported yet (I'm hoping to
>> contribute to Wireshark as I go along).
>
> Hi Harsha,
>
> I would suggest to directly browse the MAPI dissector code [1]. The
> dissector code is a bit old (never really had time to update it), but
> should be a good start for further contributions.
>
> Also, I'd suggest you to run mapiproxy [2] in the middle of
> Outlook/Exchange with the downgrade module enabled so Outlook will be
> forced to downgrade to EcDoConnect/EcDoRpc and avoid using
> EcDoConnectEx/EcDoRpcExt2 with compression.
>
> Finally if you set mapiproxy binding string parameter with [print] flag,
> you'll have all MAPI traffic decoded properly and dumped on stdout.
>
> Within the same order idea, you may want to try mapitrace tool[3]
> available in trunk and possibly look at openchange tools to understand
> MAPI semantics.
>
> [1] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/pidl/mapi/
> [2] http://mapiproxy.openchange.org
> [3] http://wiki.openchange.org/index.php/MAPITRACE
>
Hi Julien,

Many thanks for the tips. I shall try all of them.

Cheers,
Harsha
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