aha!

it *was* the hostname domainname thingy! looking at /etc/hosts proved it! and now it's fixed, and i'm actually getting all the mail from bugzilla. rock. now for those other leeeetle things....

And just to make this not an entirely content-less post for those of you who couldn't care less about my bugzilla tribulations:

a story on talking tombstones

Take that!