My Sun Blog!!!

Hello readers!!!  The posting on this blog has become rather more lesser. There are many reasons for the frequency of posting to have reduced. One obvious and main reason is the fact that we have an hectic scheduled this sem and with me being the Sun CA adds up to the amount of work i … Read more

How To read RSS Feeds using Mozilla Thunderbird

I have been using Thunderbird for a long time and had been using it just to read the mails offline. But lately i have been into blogging and have seen so many RSS feeds but the only problem was i could not subscribe to them- I could have used Live Bookmarks facility in FireFox but thats not appealing. So i thought of switching to Thunderbird for the same. So with a brief overview on RSS feeds and Thunderbird i will show how to configure Thunderbird for receiving RSS Feeds.

What is RSS?

In simple term RSS is a Web content syndication format. Its name is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication.
Some sample RSS Feeds:
java.net Weblogs
Mozilla Blog

What is Thunderbird?
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation.

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