From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57940 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Niklas Morberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Getting started with the agent Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:48:26 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087894218 27148 80.91.224.253 (22 Jun 2004 08:50:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6481@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jun 22 10:50:03 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bcgyh-0006Oo-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:50:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BcgyO-0001pj-00; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 03:49:44 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BcgyH-0001pd-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 03:49:37 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BcgyE-0007US-Ac for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 03:49:34 -0500 Original-Received: from miranda.se.axis.com (miranda.se.axis.com [193.13.178.2]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF3A3A003A for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 03:49:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from lnxniklas.se.axis.com (lnxniklas.se.axis.com [10.84.8.1]) by miranda.se.axis.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Debian-5local0.1) with ESMTP id i5M8mGPr000366; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:48:16 +0200 Original-To: Simon Josefsson In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:14:53 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57940 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57940 Simon Josefsson writes: > Niklas Morberg 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