Comment 33 for bug 12446

A report on my findings thus far:

I set up a pristine test environment to try and replicate the problem
that Karl has been having. I have been able to setup a system running
exim with the same configuration that Karl has, plugged into
delivering mail through bogofilter, using the same bogofilter
configuration as Karl. To setup the bogofilter databases, I fed
approximately 2,000 ham messages and approximately 6,000 spam messages
into bogofilter, creating database files in /etc/bogofilter with the
same permissions as Exim.

I then proceeded to send test mails. In the beginning bogofilter
failed after about 20 messages due to database corruption. This was
because the /etc/bogofilter directory was not set to have the correct
ownership and permissions as was needed. After confirming with Karl
how he had his setup, I changed it in the test scenario and restarted
the tests. I ran tests that simulated mail delivery of approximately
1200 messages an hour (approximately 20/minute) for over 24 hours with
no failures, I delivered approximately 35,000 messages with no
problems at all.

This is with exim 4.34-10 and bogofilter 0.93.5-1. It certainly seems
that with a fresh installation of these versions everything works as
expected.

I am now going to try the same suite of tests with version 0.93.3 and
then attempt to upgrade to 0.93.5-1 as this is where Karl seemed to
have a problem, moving from 0.93.3 to 0.93.5. I need to somehow track
down an older version of the .deb.

micah

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Clint Adams wrote:

> > >Can you provide the configuration you use with exim to plug bogofilter
> > >in? I am particularly interested because version 4.34-10 of exim
> > >depends on libdb3 and exim 4.44-2 depends on libdb4.2 so I am curious
> > >to know if exim uses libdb to interface with bogofilter in any way.
> > >
> > >micah
> >
> > I can use libdb - but I'm not using any db lists.
>
> That's an interesting question; maybe you should try the exim in
> project/experimental, which is linked against libdb4.2.