[Spambayes] Changing database type kills SpamBayes

[Tony Meyer]

> I'm using SB Proxy at home and I ran into the dreaded equivalent of  
> BSOD ("DBRunRecoveryError: (-30982, 'DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,  
> run database recovery").  So I followed the FAQ and removed the  
> database and changed the DB type from hammie (I think it's the  
> default) to pickle. After starting spamBayes, it would immediately  
> die - the tray icon would disappear.  This is on Win XP  
> professional with SP1.

You'll have to remove the old bsddb files, or set SpamBayes to use  
different ones.  There's a tracker open about this somewhere (the  
best behaviour would probably be to automatically convert the  
databases, if possible).

=Tony.Meyer

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