I'm sitting on a live console session to our main hub mail server at the moment, overseeing some changes to the SMTP configuration. It's quite weird watching all the mail coming and going - I think it'd be a somewhat more satisfying experience if the whole thing was a stream of green 0's and 1's which I could interpret, but as it stands the overall feeling is quite similar.
What's quite weird is when you see connecting servers, and mail being converted, and you know the message is going to be for you, and you can then watch it being delivered. If it was a messenger boy coming my way on horse, sometimes I'd like to whip out a bow and arrow and shoot him.