Bogofilter won't learn anymore

[Alexander Borghgraef]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Chris Wilkes 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?

 Apparently. I upgraded and kept the two. But now that I know I'm not 
supposed to, I'll run bogoupgrade :-)

> 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

 Strangely db_verify didn't give any output. But I tried the line above,
and now it seems to work again. So I guess it was a messed up db. Thanks
for the help.

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