It seems this is still not fixed. I have rsyslog 5.8.11-2ubuntu2.2 running on 13.04 and the full hostname (using either $PreserveFQDN or $LocalHostName) is only used for messages from rsyslog itself. Messages from sshd, sudo, pam etc etc are only using the bare hostname.
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