Preferred mail client?

[Luke -Jr]

On Thursday 10 January 2008, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> Solidly in the Google Mail camp. I use their Google Apps for Your Domain
> service to keep my domain name but use the GMail interface. I use their
> jabber service, calendar, docs, etc. And while there is that ever-present
> privacy concern, my contract (yes, it's $50 per year for hosting) with them
> spells out their legal obligations and Google has thus far said that they
> will not respond to government fishing expedition requests as they consider
> them illegal.
>
> I have "jasonclinton.com" and my partner has "brandonward.us". We can share
> calendars, docs, jabber federation between our domains.
>
> It's very nice.

But do you get to host your stuff on a server you have root on, or at least 
get direct unfiltered access to your spam filters and maildirs?