Count Patch [was: possible message count corruption]

[Jeremy Blosser]

On Sep 20, David Relson [relson at osagesoftware.com] wrote:
> Jeremy,
> 
> Attached is a patch that makes the *.count files obsolete by adding 
> ".count" as a word in the wordlist database.  Since words (tokens) in the 
> databases must start with a letter or a dollar sign, ".count" will never 
> conflict and is available for this purpose.
> 
> With the patch, the getcount() function first asks the database for 
> ".count".  If it's present, fine.  If it isn't present, the list.count file 
> is read and ".count" is output to the database.  At the end of adding 
> messages to the databases, the count is output to the db.
> 
> Give it a try and let me know if it fixes your problem.

Nope.  10 minutes after switching to a patched version:

% grep ' messages on the spam' bogofilter-log|grep -C ' 1 messages'
bogofilter: 1 messages on the spam list
bogofilter: 2 messages on the spam list
bogofilter: 3 messages on the spam list
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bogofilter: 158 messages on the spam list
bogofilter: 159 messages on the spam list
bogofilter: 1 messages on the spam list
bogofilter: 160 messages on the spam list
bogofilter: 1 messages on the spam list
bogofilter: 2 messages on the spam list
bogofilter: 3 messages on the spam list