Bogofilter won't learn anymore

[David Relson]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 01:32:23 -0800
Chris Wilkes <cwilkes-bf at ladro.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:06:42AM +0100, Alexander Borghgraef wrote:
> > I have this very annoying problem. Until recently, bogofilter worked
> > very well for me. But now there seems to be a problem: bogofilter -s
> > doesn't do anything anymore. Whether it's a large body of spam, or a
> > single mail, the program just hangs. I use version 0.15.7,
> > goodlist.db is 15M large, spamlist.db is 5M.
> 
> Can you use two wordlists with 0.15.x?
> 
> Try doing a
> 	db4_verify ./yourwordlist.db  # might use db3_verify or
> 	db_verify
> and see if that reports any errors.  You can clear those out by simply
> dumping the database and re-creating it:
>   bogoutil -d ./yourwordlist.db | bogoutil -l ./newwordlist.db
> 
> Also see if there's anything else reading / writing to the database
> file.  You can do that with a "lsof | grep list.db"
> 
> Chris

As Chris says, it's likely a b0rked database.  Depending on what's
happened to it, "bogoutil -d ..." may go into a loop.  To be safe, you
might want to run separate commands:

   bogoutil -d old/goodlist.db | tee goodlist.txt
   bogotuil -l new/goodlist.db < goodlist.txt

   bogoutil -d old/spamlist.db | tee spamlist.txt
   bogotuil -l new/spamlist.db < spamlist.txt

After that, I'd recommend combining the separate wordlists into a single
wordlist (which has been bogofilter's default configuration for several
months) using "bogoupgrade"

David