Disabling XBATCH by default in innd

[Russ Allbery]

Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:

> Maye we could rename "nolist" and "noresendid" to "list" and "resendit"
> in the major 2.7.0 release?  innupgrade can do the change.  This way,
> we'll get rid of all double negatives in incoming.conf.

I know it's always disruptive to change things like this, but personally
I'd lean in favor of this.  What do other folks think?

> We could also remove "comment" and "email" parameters which are unused
> in the code (I've checked), just mentioned "marked as reserved for
> future use" in documentation.

"comment" is, IIRC, left over from a desire to make the configuration file
readable and writable by code without losing information.  That work was
never complete, and at this point I think if we were going to pursue this
again, we'd use a different format like YAML.  (The Python ruamel.yaml
module supports reading and writing YAML while preserving comments and
order.)  I'm in favor of dropping this.  Maybe innupgrade could convert
any that it finds to actual comments?

"email" I'm a bit more worried about since it's possible that people have
used that field as documentation to record the contact email address of a
peer.  I have no idea if anyone has done that or not, but keeping the
field is also fairly cheap, so I'm not sure if it's worth the potential
disruption.  Although maybe there too innupgrade could work some magic.

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