Using RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007

re: Using RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007

Michael — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:46:50 GMT

There seems to be a lot of chatter on the net about RSS feeds in Outlook failing to update. I too have encountered this problem. I believe my problems may stem from installing Windows XP on another partition and then accessing the Outlook PST file from Outlook 2007 installed on the new partition. When I return to the old partition my existing RSS feeds were no longer updating. Now only RSS feeds created after that date are being processed. Hope this helps you sort this problem out. Outlook 2007's RSS feature is nice, but the glitches are a real killer.

re: Using RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007

psesgladden — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:13:32 GMT

Punit, I'm having the same problem with the RSS Feed option tab missing from the Account Settings. Although the RSS Feeds folders is listed in my Mailbox. We're setup a little different because we do have an Exchange server. However I'm not sure that is the problem, because the RSS Feeds works on other computers on the network. I pretty sure it's specific to the computer b/c no matter who logs on to it and setups Outlook 2007 client, we get the same message: administrator has turned off this option. Did you find a solution?

re: Using RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007

Kinshuk — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:41:30 GMT

Hi I need to read feeds offline quite often, and most of the feeds I read have only minimal data in the feed itself, so I have set up Outlook to download whole article as HTML. But when I am offline, I find that none of teh images have been downloaded with the whole article. Any suggestions? Regards. Kinshuk

re: Using RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007

bcb — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:39:24 GMT

I've noticed that Outlook 2007 never updates most of my feeds. I found this post by searching for the problem, and saw that there was an "Update Limit" setting. Since most RSS publishers don't include their update rate (which I discovered is set by a sy namespace setting below), I unchecked this box. But how do I force Outlook to refresh a feed, as even after unchecking this option, the feeds haven't refreshed. xmlns:sy="purl.org/.../" daily 6 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00

re: Using RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007

dariust — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:15:17 GMT

Can someone explain what makes a feed show up as unread? Is it the pubDate or guid or the fact that the content has changed? Thanks.

re: Using RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007

Punit — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:54:12 GMT

Hi Chris: RSS feed option does not show in my account settings/ options. When I try to add RSS feed, I get a message stating that administrator has turned off this option. It is my personal computer, and there is no other administrator. I suspect the problem originates during a disk clean up. It was working before that. could you or anyone on this forum advise me what to do? Thanks

re: Using RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007

Daniel — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:22:57 GMT

I'm very frustrated with the Outlook RSS integration. I currently do not receive any updates to any of the RSS feeds to which I am subscribed. Looking at my Groups, all the check marks are set to down load updates, I don't have any synchronization filters set. All in all, this is a bad user experience and it does not do the job it was intended to do - download posts. I run Outlook 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2003 and manually add the RSS URL's using the "Add a New RSS Feed..." menu item.

re: Using RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007

joe — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:41:36 GMT

Regarding deleting multiple rss items. Am I missing something? I just press control+A to select all items, then just place them in deleted items.

re: Using RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007

Jason — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:29:33 GMT

I went on vacation last week and when I came back all of my RSS feeds are not being updated. I have spent a considerable amount of time on this and finally found the Send/Receive Group option. When I go to edit my default send/receive group and click on RSS there are only new ones added. It completely removed my regular RSS feeds. The feeds are still in the Common Feeds List because I can see them in Internet Explorer. They are all being updated and everything looks good there but Outlook seems to have totally dropped them. The RSS capability seems like such a basic feature to include in Outlook and I am really disappointed that it functions so poorly. I will have to explore other RSS reader options until this product matures.

re: Using RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007

Matt Steinberg — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:09:52 GMT

Chris, I use this all the time and really like it. My problem is that one of my RSS feeds is from a SharePoint list and for some reason, Outlooks is marking five items in the list as unread over and over again, even though the feed in IE does not. Any ideas?