many spams getting through

David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com
Tue Sep 14 02:21:52 CEST 2004


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:37:01 -0300
Trevor Smith wrote:

> On September 13, 2004 2:02 pm, Matthias Andree wrote:
> 
> > Has your database become corrupt? Try:
> >
> > bogoutil -d ~/.bogofilter/wordlist.db >/dev/null
> > db_verify ~/.bogofilter/wordlist.db
> >
> > Both should not produce any output.
> 
> Neither produced any output.
> 
> > Then, check
> > bogoutil -d ~/.bogofilter/wordlist.db 2>&1 | less
> >
> > and see if it looks complete lexicographically.
> 
> it seems to have entries for every imaginable word (and some
> unimaginable ones <g>). I stopped when I got to the lower case letters
> though.
> 
> I have decided it may have been an anomaly. Thanks for all the help.

Trevor,

What were the message's scores (from the X-Bogosity: line)??

Rather than use "| less" which makes you look at gazillions of tokens,
use "| tail", which will print the end of the list.  You should see
tokens beginning with z's (or accented characters).  

David



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