MAILBOX_FORMAT_NETNEWS - is it actually needed?

[Ken Murchison]

I think its some legacy cruft.  I have never used it in any code that I 
have written.  It probably can be removed.


Bron Gondwana wrote:
> I've just been searching through the sourcecode trying to find any
> evidence that MAILBOX_FORMAT_NETNEWS actually changes how anything
> works.
> 
> It looks like it's used in charset_searchfile and charset_extractfile
> and asserted in a couple of places that don't seem to make heaps of
> sense to me - things like being unable to find the filename for the
> file, and not copying the cache record when copying messages between
> mailboxes.
> 
> Does anyone remember why it's done this way, and if it's still needed?
> It would be nice to be able to simplify...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bron.
> 

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Carnegie Mellon University