Grant Holliday

I’ve been using the new RSS reader in Outlook 2007 for the past month or so. It’s been great having posts sitting there waiting to be read in ‘Unread Mail’. The other feature I love is being able to simply hit ‘forward’ on a post and send it to a colleague who might be interested.

I’m a former Bloglines user but I found that I would sit there all day and press refresh to feed my addiction. Squeet is a free service that downloads your feeds for you and sends them by email. Mitch has always used Squeet and swears by it, so I thought it’s worth a try. I agree with Geoff that being able to email a comment to a post would be a killer feature!

Having the feeds delivered directly to Outlook is great, as it allows me to take them offline and read and respond. I found using online aggregators, I would read the information and not absorb it. I wouldn’t take the time to respond or comment.

So my first step of moving to Squeet was to delete all my subscriptions from the RSS platform and then delete all the folders off my work’s Exchange server. Easy task? Not really.

Fortunately my feeds were imported in folders and I was able to use IE7 to recursively delete the folders and the feeds contained.

Removing the special “RSS Feeds” folder in Outlook was a little more difficult because Outlook 2007 treats it as a ‘special folder’ and the ‘delete’ option does not exist.

One way is to use this trick from Daniel Moth’s blog: Deleting all RSS feeds in Outlook 2007 as well as using the RSS API to delete all RSS feeds in IE7.

The easy way: Outlook Web Access

If you’re fortunate enough to have Outlook Web Access enabled, then it’s just a simple right-click on the “RSS Feeds” folder and “Delete”.