Importance of servername canonicalization - can/should this be improved?

[Bron Gondwana]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 09:56:41AM -0500, Nic Bernstein wrote:
> It seems to me that since servername is so important, this behavior 
> should at least be mentioned in the imapd.conf(5) manpage.  But really, 
> I would expect that once the source server is connected to the target 
> server via IMAP protocol, if the target lists a servername in its 
> greeting or capability string (as it will unless 'serverinfo: off' is 
> set) then THAT name is what should be entered into the mailboxes.db 
> file, and not whatever shorthand the user may have used.

Yeah, it's known bug :(  And the plan is indeed to do something like
this.  The trickiest bit is actually that people also rename their
servers, and we have to cope with that case too.

Bron.