[Spambayes] pop3proxy won't start after a reboot

Ed Rubinsky edrubins at andisplace.com
Wed Jul 2 17:51:23 EDT 2003


Skip Montanaro wrote:
 >> 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.

I did, it did, and all seems well with the world, at least for the moment. 
One thing I noticed is that with PyBSDDB training is orders of magnitude 
faster.

Best, Ed


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