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Robert Epprecht <epprecht@logon.ch> writes:

> Isn't the Agent supoused to create his own directories himself? 

Yup.

> When I had Gnus running and some groups subscribed, I tried to set up 
> the Agent, but couldn't get it right, until I made the 'nntp/news.my.server' 
> directory in 'News/agent/' by hand... strange... what did I do wrong?

What's your gnus-use-long-file-name and nnmail-use-long-file-names
variables?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen