Re: Getting started with the agent

[Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> 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.

Ok, I'll skip that. (Not that it should matter, but it makes
my gnus.el one line shorter :)

[snip]

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

Yes there is. No groups seem to belong to it, though. I'll
change that instead of creating a new category.

>> 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.

Good. Then there's nothing wrong with my setup.

> I edited the category file manually, and restarted Gnus,
> then it works. It would be nice if this was fixed...

The complete contents of my ~/News/agent/lib/categories is:

((default true ignore))

Is this correct?

Niklas