[plug] Easymail

[Oliver White]

Telford Tendys wrote:

>
> > 2. Harder solution.  See if we can reverse engineer the thing (decompile or
> > whatever) in order to figure out the protocol (I expect it wouldn't be too
> > much different to a standard pop protocol (may have some odd tweaks
> > here-and-there).
>
> decompiling is really the hard way... most likely the protocol is not
> encrypted so just run it on a windows box through a serial line to the
> modem. Then put a linux box into the serial line monitoring both channels
> and look at the transcripts. You must at least get the number that it
> calls and the messages sent from either side.

I'd be interested in this as an intelectual excersize.