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Ed Pain <96ecwp@eng.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> Symbol's function definition is void: gnus-encode-coding-string

That symbol doesn't exist in 5.8.x.  Possibly you have gained a
load-path conflict, regarding which version of Gnus is used.

In fact, looking at another system with XEmacs 20.4 + Gnus 5.5
installed, that's an old symbol defined in gnus-ems.el, gone in 5.8.

Fix your load-path.