Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re[2]: [Ethereal-users] IMAP packets decoding limited to first line only?

[Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 01:44:40 -0700 Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

GH> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 06:55:44PM +0200, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
GH> >  Does anyone know if it is possible to show all lines of an IMAP reply and
GH> > not only the first one?
GH> 
GH> Only with "-V".
GH> 
GH> Summary mode, the mode without "-V", is intended to print exactly one
GH> line per packet, not multiple lines per packet.  It would be very wrong
GH> for it to print more than one line; it'd be too verbose in some cases,
GH> and would probably also break programs or scripts that read Tethereal
GH> output and expect each line to correspond to exactly one packet.

 Thanks for replying! I understand the above reasoning but the fact is that
currently it is impossible to use ethereal for monitoring an IMAP session
which is a pity -- I'll have to be using another tool to do it for now.

GH> An additional option, for use with "-V", in which, for example, you can
GH> specify that protocol tree items for a particular protocol should be
GH> displayed "opened up", but all other items should be displayed unopened,
GH> might help here - and an option in which only protocol tree items for a
GH> particular protocol should be displayed *at all* might be useful as well.

 I still think that an option to display all lines of an IMAP reply would
be useful as well -- if it is an option and is off by default I don't think
it could negatively affect any existing programs/scripts. But, again, any
solution at all to this problem would be welcome.

 Thanks,
VZ