Re: Lots of false positives since transferring database

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.
> > 
> 
> The thing is, I don't really know which I'm using (if any)! 

What do the following commands show?
ldd `which spamprobe`
ls -al ~/.spamprobe

> 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.

Have you tried "spamprobe -T summarize" on the false positives?
Does the score change if you specify "-H none"?
This may give some hints about what is happening.

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

spamprobe export/import should be independent of the database type anyway.
Did you create a new empty database before importing?

My problem with BDB was different: it just started crashing after a
certain time of use.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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