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<h1 id="getting_started_with_blogs_and_news_feeds">Getting
started with Blogs & News Feeds</h1>
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#subscribing_to_blogs_and_news_feeds">Subscribing to blogs
& news feeds</a></li>
<li><a href="#subscribing_to_blogs_and_news_feeds_from_browser">Subscribing
to blogs & news feeds from a browser window</a></li>
<li><a href="#reading_blogs_and_news_feed_messages">Reading blogs &
news feeds messages</a></li>
<li><a href="#posting_blog_messages">Posting blog messages</a></li>
<li><a href="#adding_comments_to_a_blog_post">Adding comments to a blog
post</a></li>
<li><a href="#exporting_and_importing_feeds">Exporting and importing
feeds</a></li>
<li><a href="#editing_a_feed">Editing a feed</a></li>
<li><a href="#removing_a_feed">Removing a feed</a></li>
<li><a href="#using_different_blogs_and_news_feeds_accounts">Using
different blogs & news feeds accounts</a></li>
<li><a href="#organizing_your_feeds">Organizing your feeds</a></li>
</ul>
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<h2 id="subscribing_to_blogs_and_news_feeds">Subscribing to blogs & news
feeds</h2>
<p>If you have set up a
<a href="mailnews_getting_started.xhtml#setting_up_additional_mail_and_news_accounts">Blogs
& News account</a>, you can subscribe to Blogs & News feeds.</p>
<p>To subscribe to a feed, begin from the Mail window:</p>
<ol>
<li id="getting_into_the_feed_subscriptions_dialog">Get into the Feed
Subscriptions dialog. There are several ways to do this:
<ul>
<li>In the accounts pane, click your desired Blogs & News Feeds
account to manage, then click in the Manage Subscriptions in the right
pane.</li>
<li>In the accounts pane, click your desired Blogs & News Feeds
account to manage, or a feed inside it, then open the File menu and
choose Subscribe.</li>
<li>In the accounts pane, <strong>right click</strong> your desired Blogs
& News Feeds account to manage and choose Subscribe...</li>
<li>Open the Edit menu and select the Mail & Newsgroups Account
Settings option. In the Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings dialog,
click on a Blogs & News Feeds account main section, and then
click the Manage Subscriptions... button.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Once in the Feed Subscriptions dialog, click the Add button. The Feed
properties dialog will appear.</li>
<li>Type (or copy and paste) the feed URL into the Feed URL field.</li>
<li>Click <q>Store articles in</q> dropdown list to choose the item list
where you want the articles to be stored. This allows you to merge
multiple feeds in one list item.</li>
<li>Set <q>Show the article summary instead of loading the web page</q> to
display a brief summary that blog feeds usually include for each article.
<p><strong>Tip:</strong> Showing the article summary reduces the bandwidth
traffic and is faster, since the summary is already downloaded when the
feed is checked for new items. However, if you usually are interested in
the full article, you will save time by unchecking this option.</p>
</li>
<li>Click OK to confirm the feed addition.</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#getting_started_with_blogs_and_news_feeds">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="subscribing_to_blogs_and_news_feeds_from_browser">Subscribing to blogs
& news feeds from a browser window</h2>
<p>While browsing the web using &brandShortName;, you may find the Feed
discovery icon (<img src="chrome://communicator/skin/icons/feedIcon.png"
style="width: 16px; height: 16px;" />) while visiting a web page. You
can click on it to see a list of available feeds and choose one to get it
added to your first Blogs & News Feeds account.</p>
<p>[<a href="#getting_started_with_blogs_and_news_feeds">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="reading_blogs_and_news_feed_messages">Reading blogs & news feeds
messages</h2>
<p>When you open your Blogs & News account, you see the list of feeds to
which you subscribed. &brandShortName; checks and downloads every feed for
new messages.</p>
<p>To read blogs & news messages, begin from the Mail window:</p>
<ol>
<li>Double-click a blogs & news account to see its feeds. (If there are
no feeds, you may need to subscribe to one.)</li>
<li>Click a feed name to see its messages.</li>
<li>Click a message to read it. The header will show the original URL of the
article, which you can click to open a browser window with the
corresponding webpage.</li>
</ol>
<p>Depending on your settings for the Blogs & News account and each
individual feed, the message will be shown in its summarized view or the
full view. You can change it by choosing the menu option View, and then Feed
Message Body As. You can then select one of these options:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Web Page</strong>: Select this to show the full web page of this
message.</li>
<li><strong>Summary</strong>: Select this to show the summarized, short
version of this message.</li>
<li><strong>Default format</strong>: Select this to show the article in its
default format, as specified in the feed options or, otherwise, the Blogs
& News account.</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#getting_started_with_blogs_and_news_feeds">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="posting_blog_messages">Posting blog messages</h2>
<p>To post a blog message, you need an account in the corresponding blog. Also,
there is no standardized way to post blog messages, so you won't
normally be able to post messages from &brandShortName; Mail component.
Instead, you will need to open a browser window, log in to your blog account
and use the web interface.</p>
<p>Some blog systems, however, allow posting blog messages by sending an email
message to a specific address. You will need to find out if your blog service
implements this feature, and the correct email address to use.</p>
<p>[<a href="#getting_started_with_blogs_and_news_feeds">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="adding_comments_to_a_blog_post">Adding comments to a blog post</h2>
<p>Since there is no standardized way to add comments to a blog post, you will
usually need to open a browser window and use the web interface.</p>
<p>Some blog systems, however, allow adding comments by sending an email
message to a specific address. You will need to find out if the blog service
implements this feature, and the correct email address to use.</p>
<p>[<a href="#getting_started_with_blogs_and_news_feeds">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="exporting_and_importing_feeds">Exporting and importing feeds</h2>
<p>If you have set up a
<a href="mailnews_getting_started.xhtml#setting_up_additional_mail_and_news_accounts">Blogs
& News account</a>, you can export or import Blogs & News feed
collections using the OPML format (Outline Processor Markup Language).</p>
<p>To export the feeds in your selected blogs & news account, begin from
the Mail window:</p>
<ol>
<li>In the accounts pane, click your desired Blogs & News account to
manage, or a feed inside it.</li>
<li>Open the File menu and choose Subscribe (or use any other of the
<a href="#getting_into_the_feed_subscriptions_dialog">available methods</a>.
to access to the Feed Subscriptions dialog box).</li>
<li>In the Feed Subscriptions dialog, click the Export button. The Export
feeds as an OPML file dialog will appear.</li>
<li>Select the directory and filename to save the OPML file, and click
Save.</li>
</ol>
<p>To import the feeds in your selected blogs & news account, begin from
the Mail window:</p>
<ol>
<li>In the accounts pane, click your desired Blogs & News account to
manage, or a feed inside it.</li>
<li>Open the File menu and choose Subscribe (or use any other of the
<a href="#getting_into_the_feed_subscriptions_dialog">available methods</a>.
to access to the Feed Subscriptions dialog box).</li>
<li>In the Feed Subscriptions dialog, click the Import button. The Select
OPML file to import dialog will appear.</li>
<li>Select the directory and filename to load the OPML file, and click
Save.</li>
<li>All the feeds defined in the OPML file will be added to your blogs &
feeds account.</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#getting_started_with_blogs_and_news_feeds">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="editing_a_feed">Editing a feed</h2>
<p>If you want to change the properties of one of the feeds in your blogs &
news account, you can edit it.</p>
<p>To edit a feed in your selected blogs & news account, begin from the
Mail window:</p>
<ol>
<li>In the accounts pane, click your desired Blogs & News account to
manage, or a feed inside it.</li>
<li>Open the File menu and choose Subscribe (or use any other of the
<a href="#getting_into_the_feed_subscriptions_dialog">available methods</a>.
to access to the Feed Subscriptions dialog box).</li>
<li>In the Feed Subscriptions dialog, click on a feed in the feed list. You
may need to expand the folders in the feed list to see each individual
feed.</li>
<li>Click the Edit button. The Feed properties dialog will appear.</li>
<li>You can change where you want the articles to be stored clicking the
<q>Store articles in</q> dropdown list.</li>
<li>You may mark <q>Show the article summary instead of loading the web
page</q> to display a brief summary that blog feeds usually include for
each article.
<p><strong>Tip:</strong> Showing the article summary reduces the bandwidth
traffic and is faster, since the summary is already downloaded when the
feed is checked for new items. However, if you usually are interested in
the full article, you will save time by unchecking this option.</p>
</li>
<li>Click OK to confirm the changes.</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#getting_started_with_blogs_and_news_feeds">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="removing_a_feed">Removing a feed</h2>
<p>If you no longer want to follow one of the feeds in your blogs & news
account, you can remove it.</p>
<p>To remove a feed in your selected blogs & news account, begin from the
Mail window:</p>
<ol>
<li>In the accounts pane, click your desired Blogs & News account to
manage, or a feed inside it.</li>
<li>Open the File menu and choose Subscribe (or use any other of the
<a href="#getting_into_the_feed_subscriptions_dialog">available methods</a>.
to access to the Feed Subscriptions dialog box).</li>
<li>In the Feed Subscriptions dialog, click on a feed in the feed list. You
may need to expand the folders in the feed list to see each individual
feed.</li>
<li>Click the Remove button. You will be asked to confirm the deletion of the
feed.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> don't confuse a feed with a folder in a Blogs
& News account. Removing a feed doesn't delete the folder in which
the feed articles are stored, and thus, such articles will stay in the folder
until you delete either the whole folder or the articles themselves. To get
a better understanding, see <a href="#organizing_your_feeds">Organizing your
feeds</a> later in this section.</p>
<p>[<a href="#getting_started_with_blogs_and_news_feeds">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="using_different_blogs_and_news_feeds_accounts">Using different blogs
& news feeds accounts</h2>
<p>A single blogs & news feeds account can contain any number of feeds in
it, so you don't strictly need more than one blogs & news feeds
account. However, you may want to create several blogs & news feeds
accounts. Some reasons to do that are:</p>
<ul>
<li>You can use different accounts to categorize your feeds. For example, you
can create an account named <q>Mozilla News</q> to put in it all your
feeds related to Mozilla, and another one named <q>Today Headlines</q> to
put in it all your feeds with general news.</li>
<li>If you have several accounts, each one can have different settings. This
way, you can choose, for example, different time intervals for each account
(and, therefore, their feeds.)</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#getting_started_with_blogs_and_news_feeds">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="organizing_your_feeds">Organizing your feeds</h2>
<p>The default operation mode when adding a feed to a Blogs & News Feeds
account in &brandShortName; is to create a folder and a feed inside it.
However, &brandShortName; allows you a great deal of flexibility. This section
helps you to better organize your feeds:</p>
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#feeds_vs_folders">Feeds versus folders</a></li>
<li><a href="#organizing_folders_in_blogs_and_news_feeds_accounts">Organizing
folders in Blogs & News Feeds accounts</a></li>
<li><a href="#downloading_multiple_feeds_in_a_single_folder">Downloading
multiple feeds in a single folder</a></li>
<li><a href="#moving_a_feed_to_another_folder">Moving a feed to another
folder</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h3 id="feeds_vs_folders">Feeds versus folders</h3>
<p>Blogs & News Feeds accounts are organized through two main concepts:
<strong>feeds</strong> and <strong>folders</strong>.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Feeds</strong> are sources for articles/posts. They provide
the means to get new articles from blogs. You subscribe to feeds.</li>
<li><strong>Folders</strong> in Blogs & News Feeds accounts work pretty
much like in any other account type. Folders store articles/posts you got
through the feeds.</li>
</ul>
<p>You use the Feed Subscriptions dialog to tell &brandShortName; which feed
messages are downloaded in which folders. As feeds provide new articles and
folders provide the store to put such articles, you will want to have them
connected, usually linking a feed to a folder. However, keep in mind that
removing a feed will not automatically delete the associated folder, nor
will remove the articles/posts from the removed feed, since they are
stored into the folder.</p>
<p>[<a href="#organizing_your_feeds">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h3 id="organizing_folders_in_blogs_and_news_feeds_accounts">Organizing folders
in Blogs & News Feeds accounts</h3>
<p>You can create, rename, move or copy folders in Blogs & News Feeds
accounts just like with any other account type. See
<a href="mailnews_organizing.xhtml#creating_a_folder">Creating a folder</a>,
<a href="mailnews_organizing.xhtml#renaming_a_folder">Renaming a folder</a>
and <a href="mailnews_organizing.xhtml#moving_or_copying_a_folder">Moving or
copying a folder</a> for more details.</p>
<p>[<a href="#organizing_your_feeds">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h3 id="downloading_multiple_feeds_in_a_single_folder">Downloading multiple
feeds in a single folder</h3>
<p>You may want to use a single folder to store articles/items coming from
more than one feed. To do this, you just need to add additional feeds in
that folder. Begin from the Mail window:</p>
<ol>
<li>In the accounts pane, click your desired Blogs & News Feeds account
to manage, or a feed inside it.</li>
<li>Open the File menu and choose Subscribe (or use any other of the
<a href="#getting_into_the_feed_subscriptions_dialog">available methods</a>.
to access to the Feed Subscriptions dialog box).</li>
<li>In the Feed Subscriptions dialog, click in the desired folder, then click
the Add button. The Feed properties dialog will appear.</li>
<li>Type (or copy and paste) the feed URL in the Feed URL field.</li>
<li>Click OK to confirm the feed addition.</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#organizing_your_feeds">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h3 id="moving_a_feed_to_another_folder">Moving a feed to another folder</h3>
<p>You can move a feed from a folder to another one using any of these
methods:</p>
<ul>
<li>Drag & drop a feed while inside the Feed Subscriptions window.</li>
<li><a href="#editing_a_feed">Edit the feed</a> to change in what folder it
downloads articles/items.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Remember that moving the feed doesn't move
existing articles from the folder in which they have been
downloaded.</p>
<p>[<a href="#organizing_your_feeds">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
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