I have reconfigured the sub-MTA in my home directory on master which is used by the bug tracking system. (I have Smail installed in my filespace because qmail's sendmail command line emulation is broken and using Smail as a gateway to the system's real MTA was easier than trying to parse RFC822 recipient fields myself.)
The bug system's mailer will now deliver mail itself whenever it can; previously it used `localhost' as a smarthost, so that master's qmail installation would do the actual delivery. This will, I hope: (a) provide logs for outgoing mail at least. qmail does not log anything at all, making it impossible to trace missing mail. (b) provide faster delivery. qmail doesn't deliver things immediately - it always waits for a queue run. (c) provide more reliable delivery. I have had a couple of unexplained `unknown mail domain' type bounces. (d) allow me to inspect the outbound mail queue without becoming root. Users should not notice any difference. If you encounter any problems (eg, malformed messages from the bug system) please let me know. Ian.