>> 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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