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From: Jo Rhett (no email)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2006 - 05:10:57 EDT
Jo Rhett wrote:
> Andreas Winkelmann wrote:
>> Am Tuesday 03 October 2006 02:09 schrieb Jo Rhett:
>>
>>> It may appear that the answer is
>>> servername: name I want to use for local realm
>>>
>>> Any reason I shouldn't do it this way? Any better way?
>>
>> The value of servername is presented after Connecting to your server.
>> If you move the Configuration to another Server, the real Servername
>> and the presented can differ. If you can live with that, this is the
>> easiest way.
>
> Actually, the problem is much much worse and incredibly inconsistent.
> Like blow me away inconsistent.
>
> Connect from localhost, and the realm used is the 'servername' parameter
> from imapd.conf (or FQDN if unset)
>
> Connect from another host, and the realm used is apparently derived from
> the hostname! In this case, it's being set to sv.svcolo.com
Apparently this is standard and can be disabled with virtdomain: userid.
Okay, so "servername" really is just the server name.
Can we get a new parameter which is always used as the default domain
for SASL authentication if no other is provided? Obviously the
virtdomain ip-lookup mode provides a domain to sasl, so it wouldn't
affect this...
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