[24743] in SIPB bug reports
spam-inc bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abbe Cohen Dvornik)
Tue Mar 22 10:15:27 2005
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From: Abbe Cohen Dvornik <abbe@alum.MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Subject: spam-inc bug
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If the spam-inc script (/mit/sipb/arch/sun4x_59/bin/spam-inc) finds
more than 998 messages, the refile +spamfolder in the script will
fail, and the spam and non-spam will both remain in the inbox.
This is because refile and rmm cannot handle more than 998 messages
(don't ask me why.)
I wasn't paying too much attention when this happened, but it looked
to me like all of the output from the script looked perfectly normal,
so I didn't even realize it until noticing that 90% of my new mail was
spam and was flagged as spam. In manually refiling it with pick, I
got the "more than 998 messages" error message for refile and realized
that it was probably the suspect.
I haven't looked over the script other than verifying that it is using
refile, but someone might want to investigate.
--Abbe
