On Thursday 10 January 2008, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
On 1/10/08, Luke -Jr [email protected] 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.