[Spambayes] Problem with POP3 Proxy

[Administrator]

Tony,

Thanks.

I run a bunch of mailing lists, so that the ham that I get is often
administrative. I don't want to delete it, hence the skewed numbers.

My gut is that it probably got corrupted by some of the spam that I get. The
lists have been around a long time and get some pretty strange spam. I'll
keep an eye on it, and if it gets corrupted again, will send the log or the
files.

Thanks again for all of your help.

Brian


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Meyer" <tameyer at ihug.co.nz>
To: "'Administrator'" <admin at calchiro.com>; <spambayes at python.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 6:08 PM
Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Problem with POP3 Proxy


> > I have trained 10437 ham and 2021 spam.
>
> BTW, you'll probably get better results, if:
>
>   1.  You train on roughly equal numbers of ham and spam.
>   2.  You don't train on everything.  'Training on mistakes', for example
> (unsure, false positives, false negatives), tends to give better results
> than 'train on everything'.
>
> [...]
> > DBRunRecoveryError: (-30982, 'DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal
> > error, run database recovery -- fatal region error
> > detected; run recovery')
>
> This means that your database is dead.  From the traceback it seems that
> this is probably the 'message info' database, rather than the statistics
> database, so all you'll lose is the ability to correct training on
messages
> already trained and the statistics on the Stats page will be reset.
>
> To fix, delete the 'message info' database when spambayes isn't running.
> Next time you run, it'll be automatically recreated. This is called
> something like messageinfo.db or spambayes.messageinfo.db, and is with the
> hammie.db/statistics_database.db file.
>
> If you still get the error, then your stats db might be dead, too.  In
this
> case, you'll have to delete both database files.
>
> We're still not 100% sure how these errors occur (well, we've found
several
> reasons, but all those are fixed now), although they are very rare these
> days.  If training was interrupted (power cut, crash) for some reason,
that
> could be why.  If you're able to reproduce the corruption, we'd be very
> interested to hear how.
>
> =Tony Meyer
>
> ---
> Please always include the list (spambayes at python.org) in your replies
> (reply-all), and please don't send me personal mail about SpamBayes. This
> way, you get everyone's help, and avoid a lack of replies when I'm busy.
>
>