[Spambayes] The joys of error messages.

[papaDoc]

Hi Alex,

> Hi, I'm having problems when running spambayes (python 
> sb_imapfilter.py -c -t -v ) and am getting the following errors:
>
> Classifying
> *****.*Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "sb_imapfilter.py", line 928, in ?
>    run()
>  File "sb_imapfilter.py", line 918, in run
>    imap_filter.Filter()
>  File "sb_imapfilter.py", line 789, in Filter
>    self.unsure_folder)
>  File "sb_imapfilter.py", line 707, in Filter
>    evidence=True)
>  File "D:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\spambayes\classifier.py", line 
> 190, in chi
> 2_spamprob
>    clues = self._getclues(wordstream)
>  File "D:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\spambayes\classifier.py", line 
> 493, in _ge
> tclues
>    tup = self._worddistanceget(word)
>  File "D:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\spambayes\classifier.py", line 
> 508, in _wo
> rddistanceget
>    prob = self.probability(record)
>  File "D:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\spambayes\classifier.py", line 
> 308, in pro
> bability
>    assert hamcount <= nham
> AssertionError
>
> Wondering if anyone knows what's going on or what to do to solve it, 
> as I can no longer filter spam.


Usually this mean that there is a problem with the database and you will 
probably need to retrain from scratch.

When you train or untrain a message try to use always the original 
mesage not a copy since Spambayes
add Header to the mail indicating "This message was train as ham/spam" 
and when you untrain. the It can
undo what it did.

What can be interesting is what did you do to get this ? Since this is 
still an open problem.

Remi

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