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>> I'd actually be interested in finding such a beast... It seems odd
>> that nobody has made one.
>
> It's only odd because what Exchange does is inherently difficult to do
> well. Who is going to write such a thing, and try to compete with
> Exchange? It's not cool enough for random Linux enthusiasts to write
> from scratch, any more than OpenOffice was.
What Exchange does is store your mailbox in a central database rather
than locally on your PC. That's pretty trivial.
OTOH, I'll grant that it's not very "shiny", so that's probably why
nobody else has done it...
>> So what does IIS do that Apache doesn't then?
>
> Windows logins. ASP.NET. Remote administration. A whole different
> processing module method. Interesting deployment options where you don't
> have to roll your own. Etc. Go read up on it.
None of that made any sense to me, but hey...
>> (Aside from giving root access to anybody who types their URLs with
>> backslashes instead of forward slashes...)
>
> Cite?
I *think* this is the correct one:
https://services.netscreen.com/restricted/sigupdates/nsm-updates/HTML/HTTP:IIS:ASP-DOT-NET-BACKSLASH.html
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