I'm having some troubles getting SpamAssassin's bayesian spam filtering. I had SpamAssassin running just dandy on my previous server (Red Hat 8.0) and the bayesian filtering worked just dandy. I just moved all the users' home directories over to a new server (FreeBSD 5.1) and started having trouble. Everything else in SpamAssassin seems to work fine, but whenever it tries to do anything with the users' bayes databases from the old server, it produces this error:
Cannot open bayes databases /home/will/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: Inappropriate file type or format Cannot open bayes databases /home/will/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: tie failed: Inappropriate file type or format Cannot open bayes databases /home/will/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: tie failed: Inappropriate file type or format Now, if I remove the pre-existing bayes files, it of course goes ahead and creates new ones. Something of interest, though, is that the new files are of a different database type. "file" says this about the old bayes_toks file: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 7, native byte-order) .. and this about the fresh ones it creates: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order) This leads me to believe that, for whatever reason, SpamAssassin (and probably all of Perl) is having trouble dealing with db2 or newer type databases. I installed db3 and db4.1 from the FreeBSD ports but to no avail, and because of my limited knowledge of Perl I'm not very clear on how it interacts with Berkeley databases. I'm not sure whether to direct this problem here or at the Perl or FreeBSD list, but I'm trying here first because my trouble manifests itself in SpamAssassin. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated! W
