RSS feeds auto update?

[gmbyron]

We have a RSS feed set up for company news, and every user has a feed as a folder on their account that reads it. Users have to click Load feed to load new messages. Is there a way to make it auto update, say every day at midnight?

[p24t]

I don't know if there's a way to do that with the CLI or not. There is a bug (feature request) however, for additional functionality in the RSS feeds.

Bug 15892 - more featureful RSS support

[gmbyron]

Nice, thanks. I guess will just have to wait.

[Chris9809]

Look like there is a fix to the bug already. Unfortunately, I know nothing about how to implement it. Can someone direct me to the right procedure?

Thanks,

[nrc]

That's not really a fix, it's a user supplied work around. It's a script to run from cron that uses a command line process to update RSS feeds. Kind of a brute force method.

[Chris9809]

hanks for the clarification.

[Chewie71]

I'm working on our own script to do something along these lines here, but I'm taking a different tack. Instead of every user subscribing to the feed and updating it all the time, we created a single account (we called it "shares"). We create the RSS folder in that account, and then just make it a shared folder to all the other accounts in the system. Then we can update the feed on a set time schedule on the "shares" account...and all users get the updated feed automatically.

The downside is that they can't mark messages as read or delete messages.

zmmailbox -z -m ACCOUNT syncFolder /FolderName

That will refresh an RSS feed from the command line.

Matt

[Onkelborg]

I just wanted to say that I used your "trick" (thanks for the tip) with zmmailbox and wrote a C# windows service connecting with ssh to my zimbraserver, autoupdating my feeds with a given interval (different for each feed.) Just in case someone have any use for it I've written a blogpost about it and uploaded the code + installer: Onkelborg's blog: Zimbra - Updatera feeds / Update Feeds