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You may need to perform the "dump" step on the original machine, and the db_dump and db_load tools may have different names on your platform.

Note that some OS'es (like Debian!) install DB version 4.1, but using DB version 3.x for it's DB_File support! Use the "file" tool to find out what version is what:

file /home/jm/.spamassassin/bayes_*
/home/jm/.spamassassin/bayes_seen:  Berkeley DB (Hash, version 5, native byte-order)
/home/jm/.spamassassin/bayes_toks:  Berkeley DB (Hash, version 5, native byte-order)
/home/jm/.spamassassin/bayes_toks.copied: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte-order)

"Version 5" is db3.x, "Version 8" is db4.x. Confused yet? Don't blame us, we only work here. You need to install db3-utils to get the "db3_load" command to save in a format that the DB_File module (and therefore SpamAssassin) can use.

Other Dbs

You can do the same with the bayes_seen and auto-whitelist files, but they're not as important; I generally just blow them away:

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