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Dear List,

I tried to set up a machine specific .gnus file which sets some
variables based on 'system-name'. The nnml backend does not seem to like
that, because when I set some of the variables with the following

> (nnml-directory (concat cpath "/addons/gnus-mail/mail/"))
> (nnml-active-file (concat cpath "/addons/gnus-mail/mail/active"))
< (nnml-newsgroups-file (concat cpath "/addons/gnus-mail/mail/newsgroups"))