My computer shut off over the weekend due to a power outage, and this morning I found 3800 untested new emails in my inbox. Filtering was off and it claimed to have no database so I had to retrain it.

This part of the log gives it away: Bayes database initialized with 0 spam and 0 good messages *** - message database has 614 messages - bayes has 0 - something is screwey What has happened is that the message database, which keeps track of which messages spambayes has seen, has been saved (or at least partially saved), but the 'bayes' database that keeps track of the message tokens has not. The only solution is to retrain from scratch as you did. The next release saves the databases at better times, so should avoid this problem, as long as the power outage was not at a time when the save was taking place. Note that you can make a backup of the databases and drop them back in if things like this happen and you would rather not keep a collection of mail to retrain with. Messages with details about how to do this were recently posted on the list. =Tony Meyer