XF / News Disabling email does not disable the bounce handler

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This issue is not necessarily a bug in XF, but I'm reporting here because it has clear potential to catch people by surprise*. (See also discussion in the "How to duplicate a live site to use as a test site" thread.)

In short, when you disable email with $config['enableMail'] = false; in config.php, the email bounce handler cron job will still run.

The obvious (and maybe only?) way this can cause trouble is when you have cloned your site, because the cron job...

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