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lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> writes:

Hi!

> (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers "some")

That should be 'some the symbol, not the string.

> (setq gnus-read-active-file "some")

Ditto, 'some.  And that's the default value anyway, so you may want to
remove it.

Not sure if that is the culprit, but who knows...

Bye,
Tassilo