Comment 35 for bug 12446

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:55:49PM -0600, Micah Anderson wrote:
> 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.
Well, normally there is
http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/bogofilter/binary-i386/
but, it doesn't have any other versions.

I also tried Google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=inurl%3Abogofilter_0.93.3&btnG=Search
but without success.

:-/

Justin

> 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.
>
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