Preferred mail client?

[Luke -Jr]

On Thursday 10 January 2008, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> On 1/10/08, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I hosted my own mail for 4 years. I absolutely *LOVE* that I do not have
> root or any control over the spam filters. They do a wonderful job and I'm
> glad I'm paying someone a modest $50/yr to take that insane amount of
> burden off of my hands.

I'm not arguing against managed hosting, but rather the fact that you CANNOT 
make changes even if you want to.

> As for maildirs, yes I have access to all my mail on GAFYD through an API
> or even POP/IMAP access. The web interface exposes about 98% of this. A
> third party offers a webified version of this (for a fee) for audit trails
> and that kind of "enterprisey" type thing.

API/POP/IMAP is not direct access to the raw maildirs.