Re: using the agent default category

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

lconrad@world.std.com writes:

> When I went online, and sais "J j J s", it looked like it was doing
> things, and the group buffer said there were articles, but I was
> unable to enter the group.  The message said:
> 
> Couldn't request group gnu.emacs.gnus: Opened server news.std.com using directo\
> 
> And instead of finding the rest of the message, I went into the
> category buffer and edited the predicate of the default category to
> "true", and after that things would work.  

Hm.  Entering groups should only depend on whether there are headers
in the group or not, and the predicate only affects whether articles
are downloaded, so I don't understand this.

But Agent startup issues haven't been tested all that much.  I get the 
feeling that it basically doesn't work, but after restarting a few
times and fiddling a bit it starts working, and people forget to file
bug reports.

Could a few of youse try to start using the agent "for the first time" 
-- perhaps out of a new, pristine account -- according to how the
manual says it should be done, and see how things go?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen