I certainly don't mean to open a flame war! I'm just wondering if people think the sweeper approach is easier because they had trouble configuring qmail, when their trouble with qmail could easily be cleared up. Delivering mail to a script is so easy and reliable (from the perspective of the MTA) that, to me, setting a mailbox and having a sweeper read the mail like a human would, just faster, seems like a hopeless kludge.