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

> I'm using gnus 5.10.6 and am trying to get the agent up and
> running for IMAP. Here's what I do:
>
> (setq gnus-agent t)

Shouldn't be required, I think.

> and restart gnus. I want to download all articles for my
> groups. From the documentation I read that I need to create
> a new category and then add all groups to this category
> (this seems a bit to complicated, but I play along). This is
> what I do:
>
> - `J c' in the group buffer
> - `a' to add a new category called "everything"
> - `e' to edit the category
> - Change the "Selection Predicate" from `false' to `true'
> - Press "Done"

Isn't there already a `default' category?  I recall one being created
automatically.

> The result is this:
>
> gnus-category-prepare: Wrong type argument: sequencep, ignore
>
> and nothing seems to work properly after this. Am I going
> about this the wrong way? Is there a better way to tell the
> agent to download all my messages?

I get the same error, and I reported it some time ago I believe.  I
edited the category file manually, and restarted Gnus, then it works.
It would be nice if this was fixed...