How to troubleshoot new installation

[Doug]

I have been running Bogofilter for several years and really like it. It works very well.

I brought up bogofilter on a new system -

This is the new system - 

slate:/usr/local/bin # bogofilter -V
bogofilter-sqlite version 1.2.2
    Database: SQLite 3.7.5
Copyright (C) 2002-2010 David Relson, Matthias Andree
Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Greg Louis
Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Eric S. Raymond, Adrian Otto, Gyepi Sam

And this is the old system, I am currently using -

bogofilter-sqlite version 1.2.2
    Database: SQLite 3.7.3
Copyright (C) 2002-2010 David Relson, Matthias Andree
Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Greg Louis
Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Eric S. Raymond, Adrian Otto, Gyepi Sam

I copied the database (wordlist.db) from the old system to the new. I am using the same procmail script. 

# filter mail through bogofilter, tagging it as Ham, Spam, or Unsure,
# and updating the wordlist

# :0fw: bogofilter.lock
# | /usr/local/bin/bogofilter -u -e -p -l -d /home/admin/.bogofilter


# if bogofilter failed, return the mail to the queue;
# the MTA will retry to deliver it later
# 75 is the value for EX_TEMPFAIL in /usr/include/sysexits.h

# :0e
# { EXITCODE=75 HOST }


# file the mail to spam-bogofilter if it's spam.

# :0:
# * ^X-Bogosity: Spam, tests=bogofilter
# IN.spam-bogofilter

# file the mail to unsure-bogofilter
# if it's neither ham nor spam.

# :0:
# * ^X-Bogosity: Unsure, tests=bogofilter
# IN.unsure-bogofilter

All lines are commented out because of it failing. This is the same script that works fine on the original system.

On the new system and with this script operational I get the 75 error on all emails and they go back to the queue and eventually die.

They give this error message - 

The original message was received at Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:06:27 -0400
from localhost [127.0.0.1]
with id p5DH6PuD009336

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #admin"
    (reason: Deferred)
    (expanded from: admin)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #admin"... Deferred: prog mailer (/bin/sh) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL
Message could not be delivered for 5 days
Message will be deleted from queue

Bogoutil seems to work with the database fine - 

slate:/usr/local/bin # bogoutil -H /home/admin/.bogofilter/wordlist.db
Histogram
score   count  pct  histogram
0.00   320367 11.51 #######
0.05     3138  0.11 #
0.10     2899  0.10 #
0.15     1198  0.04 #
0.20     5535  0.20 #
0.25     1740  0.06 #
0.30     2901  0.10 #
0.35     1528  0.05 #
0.40     2347  0.08 #
0.45     1531  0.05 #
0.50     2328  0.08 #
0.55     2112  0.08 #
0.60     2513  0.09 #
0.65     2485  0.09 #
0.70     2538  0.09 #
0.75     3088  0.11 #
0.80     3580  0.13 #
0.85     4422  0.16 #
0.90     5399  0.19 #
0.95  2412035 86.65 ################################################
tot   2783684
hapaxes:  ham  186718 ( 6.71%), spam 1829218 (65.71%)
   pure:  ham  315835 (11.35%), spam 2406205 (86.44%)

How can I check that bogofilter is working from the command line and determine exactly where my error is?


Doug