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Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com> writes:

>> Isn't there already a `default' category?  I recall one being created
>> automatically.
>
> Yes there is. No groups seem to belong to it, though. I'll
> change that instead of creating a new category.

I think the "default" category applies to all groups not part of any
other category.

>> I edited the category file manually, and restarted Gnus,
>> then it works. It would be nice if this was fixed...
>
> The complete contents of my ~/News/agent/lib/categories is:
>
> ((default true ignore))
>
> Is this correct?

I dunno, my category file reads:

((default true nil nil))
((default (agent-predicate . true)))

And I think it downloads everything for me.

FWIW, my .emacs also include the following agent related settings:

 '(gnus-agent-consider-all-articles t)
 '(gnus-agent-enable-expiration (quote DISABLE))
 '(gnus-select-article-hook (quote (gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article ...