How do I enter Agent groups?

How do I enter Agent groups?

[Eze Ogwuma]

Hi,

I've been trying to get started with agent but apart from mail I've
had no success.

I already have some newsgroups from my local server in my group buffer 
but this server has not been added to agent.

I recently added some groups on a foreign server with G m to my list. I 
then added this server to agent with J a from the Server
Buffer. I set the category of all the groups to "default" which I
believe has the predicate "true".

When I use J j to become plugged and then J s or J u to get the
messages Gnus downloads all the articles in the groups. If I try to
read these while plugged Gnus fetches them from the server again.

If I then use J j to become unplugged then try to enter the group I
get and error. Below is the debug-on-error output.

I even tried adding this server to the secondary select methods list
but it made no difference.

Signaling: (error "Couldn't request group nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:uk.comp.os.linux: Opened server news.dircon.co.uk using directory ~/News/agent/nntp/news.dircon.co.uk/")
  signal(error ("Couldn't request group nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:uk.comp.os.linux: Opened server news.dircon.co.uk using directory ~/News/agent/nntp/news.dircon.co.uk/"))
  cerror("Couldn't request group %s: %s" "nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:uk.comp.os.linux" "Opened server news.dircon.co.uk using directory ~/News/agent/nntp/news.dircon.co.uk/")
  apply(cerror ("Couldn't request group %s: %s" "nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:uk.comp.os.linux" "Opened server news.dircon.co.uk using directory ~/News/agent/nntp/news.dircon.co.uk/"))
  error("Couldn't request group %s: %s" "nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:uk.comp.os.linux" "Opened server news.dircon.co.uk using directory ~/News/agent/nntp/news.dircon.co.uk/")
  gnus-select-newsgroup("nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:uk.comp.os.linux" nil)
  gnus-summary-read-group-1("nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:uk.comp.os.linux" nil t nil nil)
  gnus-summary-read-group("nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:uk.comp.os.linux" nil t nil nil)
  gnus-group-read-group(nil t)
  gnus-group-select-group(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus-group-select-group)
-- 
Eze Ogwuma

Re: How do I enter Agent groups?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:

> I recently added some groups on a foreign server with G m to my list. I 
> then added this server to agent with J a from the Server
> Buffer. I set the category of all the groups to "default" which I
> believe has the predicate "true".

[...]

> Signaling: (error "Couldn't request group nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:uk.comp.os.linux: Opened server news.dircon.co.uk using directory ~/News/agent/nntp/news.dircon.co.uk/")

Hm.  Well, it seems like Gnus doesn't recognize this as being a group
covered by the Agent.  What does `G e' on the group say?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen