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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Capturing Email Traffic

From: Seth Hall <seth@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 15:15:09 -0400
On Aug 29, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Giles Coochey <giles@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As Lars says - (POP or SMTP) will just identify traffic on ports 25 and 110, in order to do further you need protocol inspection of all traffic. Running snort over a RSPAN port of your internet VLAN might be able to perform this kind of inspection for you... you would probably have to write your own snort rule for this.
> http://www.snort.org


Alternately, Bro will create an smtp.log out of the box where it not only finds SMTP on any port, but it logs a number of attributes of email being sent.  http://www.bro-ids.org

  .Seth

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