Mailman 3 April 2008 - SpamBayes

Safe recipients list
by Gwen and Bill April 4, 2008

April 4, 2008

I am continually getting a couple of my safe senders going into SPAM. When I 'recover' them from Spam into the INBOX should this make them automatically SAFE SENDERS ? Is there a SAFE SENDERS LIST in SPAM BAYES ? What is the difference between the SPAMBAYES and my JUNK MAIL folders ? Hope you can help me !! I don't really want to have to spend money for my engineer to visit if I can resolve these queries myself !!! Many thanks Gwen Little Horsham West Sussex

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Reproducible DB corruption
by Christian Robottom Reis April 3, 2008

April 3, 2008

Hello there, I have a .hammie.db file that works fine until I train it with this week's spam folder; at that point, I get this traceback: kiko@anthem:~$ /usr/bin/sb_mboxtrain.py -s ~/mail/spam Training spam (/home/kiko/mail/spam): Reading as Unix mbox 870Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/sb_mboxtrain.py", line 350, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/sb_mboxtrain.py", line 341, in main train(h, s, True, force, trainnew, removetrained) File "/usr/bin/sb_mboxtrain.py", line 265, in train mbox_train(h, path, is_spam, force) File "/usr/bin/sb_mboxtrain.py", line 188, in mbox_train if msg_train(h, msg, is_spam, force): File "/usr/bin/sb_mboxtrain.py", line 106, in msg_train h.train(msg, is_spam) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/spambayes/hammie.py", line 162, in train self.bayes.learn(tokenize(msg), is_spam) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/spambayes/classifier.py", line 272, in learn self._add_msg(wordstream, is_spam) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/spambayes/classifier.py", line 374, in _add_msg record = self._wordinfoget(word) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/spambayes/storage.py", line 284, in _wordinfoget r = self.db.get(word) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/shelve.py", line 104, in get if self.dict.has_key(key): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py", line 256, in has_key File "bsddb/dbutils.py", line 62, in DeadlockWrap bsddb.db.DBRunRecoveryError: (-30975, 'DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery -- /home/kiko/.hammie.db: pgin failed for page 23238') Exception bsddb.db.DBRunRecoveryError: DBRunRecoveryError(-30975, 'DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery -- PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery') in ignored Exception bsddb.db.DBRunRecoveryError: DBRunRecoveryError(-30975, 'DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery -- PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery') in ignored I can train it with other folders and it works well, but this specific folder doesn't. I have daily backups of my .hammie.db and the spam folder going for about 2 weeks so I can probably trace back to see where the problem started. Does this sound like it is something worth investigating? -- Christian Robottom Reis | http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 3376 0125

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retrieving a deleted spam e-mail
by DRbnsn636＠aol.com April 3, 2008

April 3, 2008

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Newbie questions re: filter and training
by Steve Malee April 2, 2008

April 2, 2008

I do feel uncomfortable sending such elementary questions, BUT where else is there a place to ask them? Am using Outlook 2003 SP3, XPPro, Firefox 1. where do you find the technical refresh for outlook? It was mentioned in the FAQs, but not where to get it. 2. when should a person use the "rebuild entire database?" Should it be kept checked all the time? 3. Do you use the filter function and train function both when you are running the program? 4. At what point do you figure that your emails have been trained? What I mean is when should you expect the training to be completed as much as it can be? Or when do you figure that you have not trained properly and the program needs to be re-configured? I now have 362 good and 788 spam and am getting too many mistakes and suspects. My settings are as recommended at 90 and 20. Thanks for your help

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