repeately database corruption after some time

[David Relson]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:49:16 +0100
Christian Parpart wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> We are running repeatily into the problem, that bogofilter refuses to filter
> the mails after some certain time of having been run greatly in success.
> 
> But we just can't reinitiate the users' database each and every time.
> 
> However, the error  that occurs look like:
> 
> Mar 17 16:30:50 himura postfix/local[29724]: 
> 9377A79DA3D: to=<trapni at SERVER>, orig_to=<trapni at SERVER>, relay=local, 
> delay=0, status=deferred 
> (temporary failure. Command output: bogofilter[810]: 
> error: the data base file size is only 16 pages bogofilter[810]:
>         below the resource limit. Cowardly refusing bogofilter[810]:
>         to continue to avoid data base corruption. 
> procmail: Error while writing to "bogofilter" 
> procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded )
> 
> My guess was that the database file might have exceeded some certain limit of 
> size/whatever.
> 
> My wordlist.db actually is 51M, but can't use it anymore, as I myself get this 
> error, too. Removing about 500 spam mails by traversing through all maildirs 
> each day is a pain, so, I really hope to get an answer here...
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Christian Parpart.

Hi Christian,

Odds are that you're running into a mailbox size limit imposed by
postfix.  Try running "postconf | grep mailbox_size_limit" to see what
your current setting is.  Additional information is in the FAQ under
heading "Why am I getting DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND messages?"

HTH,

David