[Spambayes] pop3proxy won't start after a reboot

[Skip Montanaro]

    Ed> pop3proxy terminates with the following error after restarting the
    Ed> system (Windows 2000 Professional, Eudora 5.1.)

    ...

    Ed> EOFError Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "'NoneType' object has
    Ed> no attribute 'error' " in <bound method _Database.__del__ of
    Ed> <dumbdbm._Database instance at 0x008EB1A8> ignored

I suggest you use something other than dumbdbm as the underlying database
file.  This problem has surfaced a couple times.  Dumbdbm is a "database of
last resort".  Precisely because of this it gets very little exercise and is
probably buggy.  You should install PyBSDDB and a version of Sleepycat's
Berkeley DB library to wedge under it.  Simply upgrading to Python
2.2.3 is not sufficient.  You can get PyBSDDB here:

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13900

Once you install it, Spambayes will start using it.

Am I the only person who thinks letting Spambayes use dumbdbm is a bad idea?

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