[Spambayes] RE: Cannot open bayes database

[Steve Holden]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Hammond [mailto:mhammond at skippinet.com.au]
> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 7:37 PM
> To: sholden at holdenweb.com; 'Mark Hammond'; 'Spambayes at Python. Org'
> Subject: RE: Cannot open bayes database
>
>
> > Spam filtering has suiddenly stopped on my MS Outlook system,
> > because it
> > can no longer open the database. Is this likley to be because of too
> > many spam trained messages? If so, is there some way I can
> beef up the
> > database, or should I just delete it and start all over again.
> >
> > Emailed replies would be appreciated.
>
> It's not clear what "can't open the database" means here.  There is a
> mysterious bug that raises an assertion error after the DB
> has been opened,
> which may or may not be what you are referring to.
>
> In general though, doing a "train", and selecting "rebuild
> entire database"
> will fix these problems (for some definitions of "these" <wink>)
>
Bizarro! I unregistered the add-in and re-registered it with debug to
see what was goin on, and everything worked perfectly. Sorry about
that - not even any definite symptoms to report. I'll keep an eye open
for more trouble.

regards
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