Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] SMTP Dissect routine

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From: guy@xxxxxxxxxx (Guy Harris)
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 03:22:53 -0800 (PST)
> 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!

This may be easier with the scheme I've proposed, where all decoding
(including the detail-pane decoding) is done sequentially.