Dmitry -e switch help

[MoinFaraz]

While i am trying this tool to find possible emails on my own domain its coming up with no results

root@bt:/usr/local/bin# dmitry -e security-need.com
Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool
"There be some deep magic going on"

HostIP:66.98.145.18
HostName:security-need.com

Gathered E-Mail information for security-need.com
---------------------------------
Searching Google.com:80...
Searching Altavista.com:80...
Found 0 E-Mail(s) for host security-need.com, Searched 0 pages containing 0 results

All scans completed, exiting

& when i am trying this tool on gmail.com its coming up with only 28 results

root@bt:/usr/local/bin# dmitry -e gmail.com
Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool
"There be some deep magic going on"

HostIP:72.14.254.83
HostName:gmail.com

Gathered E-Mail information for gmail.com
---------------------------------
Searching Google.com:80...
catalin.hritcu@gmail.com
offroad.commission@gmail.com
chris.samuel@gmail.com
adikurve@gmail.com
madhav.gadgil@gmail.com
umi.tanuki@gmail.com
hockeymineur@gmail.com
emialaddress@gmail.com
isabelle.barriere@gmail.com
tony.adamss20100@gmail.com
mhowell@gmail.com
andrewbadr@gmail.com
mikelotfi@gmail.com
keith.ansell@gmail.com
commahpune@gmail.com
PaulGTully@gmail.com
philip.hrvatin@gmail.com
rbtmgreen@gmail.com
kvkirankumar319@gmail.com
jeantoe@gmail.com
dtsimon@gmail.com
giraffeorders@gmail.com
qualitydag@gmail.com
BurkHufnagel@gmail.com
nrginmotion@gmail.com
12dsanders@gmail.com
nuttaphol.ma@gmail.com
gvanberg@gmail.com
Searching Altavista.com:80...
Found 28 E-Mail(s) for host gmail.com, Searched 0 pages containing 0 results

All scans completed, exiting

Now, my question is ::: why its not showing any single result for my domain & the second question is ::: why its only showing 28 results when searching gmail.com [we all know it should be much more]

Regards

[lupin]

I think you might have a bit of a misunderstanding of how this tool gathers those email addresses. Why don't you run a packet capture while the tool runs to see what its doing. It should explain why you are getting the results you are getting.

[Archangel-Amael]

I think you might have a bit of a misunderstanding of how this tool gathers those email addresses. Why don't you run a packet capture while the tool runs to see what its doing. It should explain why you are getting the results you are getting.

I agree with the above.
See also this guide on Dmitry I did a while back, to get a better idea of what's going on.
Archangel Amael's BT Tutorials: Using Dmitry in Backtrack

[MoinFaraz]

I think you might have a bit of a misunderstanding of how this tool gathers those email addresses. Why don't you run a packet capture while the tool runs to see what its doing. It should explain why you are getting the results you are getting.

Ettercap shows that it establishes a connection with google & altavista
I think i am clear on this that it establishes a connection with search engine ^ search for possible email addresses, but my question was, in case of gmail.com why its coming with only a few results [i was wondering whether the developed put a limit on the no of possible email address, whether it can be increased or what]

[lupin]

Ettercap shows that it establishes a connection with google & altavista
I think i am clear on this that it establishes a connection with search engine ^ search for possible email addresses, but my question was, in case of gmail.com why its coming with only a few results [i was wondering whether the developed put a limit on the no of possible email address, whether it can be increased or what]

How many search results does it get back (or request for that matter)? Therein lies the key

Some search engines (like Google) do limit the number of searches that can come from an IP address, and scraping search results is technically against the Google AUP.

Its actually pretty straightforward to code up something yourself to gather email addresses in this way, and you can set the amount of results to gather yourself. I did it last year. If you use things like the Google search API and not scraping however, you are limited in the number of results you can make for a single search string....