Yes, it is working. Thanks...
... but now that I've seen those emails I realized that this mechanism doesn't include diffs.
So, the next piece of work I'd like to volonteer is to enable sending of diffs in the body of the email via the CVSROOT/loginfo mechanism. These Python scripts from our friends at Zope.org have been working for us very well for years: http://dev.zope.org/DevHome/CVS/CVSAddons