Re: Lots of false positives since transferring database

On 02 Oct 2008, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I copied my database from my desktop to a laptop because I am away from
> > home for 3 weeks and need to download and check my mail.
> > 
> > Spamprobe is now classifying practically everything as spam. It's not a
> > major problem (I'm simply checking the spam folder and retraining on the
> > ham)  but any idea what could have happened here?
> > 
> > I tried exporting/importing the database but no effect. I think I may
> > now be using Berkeley instead of pbl - would that make a difference?
> 
> Shun the Berkeley DB if you can. I have had problems with the BDB
> backend too, though of a different kind.
> 
> -- 
> Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
> sip:[email protected]
> 

The thing is, I don't really know which I'm using (if any)! The database
was made on my desktop with pbl and I imported it to this laptop. But I
couldn't compile spamprobe on this computer so I used the Debian
package. The documentation for this talks about Berkeley, but I don't
have Berkeley on the machine. So in summary, I don't seem to be using
either of them, but nevertheless everything seems to be working as
expected apart from the above-mentioned problem. Once I've marked an
email as good, further emails from the same site are recognized as
good.

Does the pbl/Berkeley issue only apply when the database is originally
compiled, not subsequently?

Anthony




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