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Well, I tried intraVnews for over a week, and it is the best Outlook based RSS feed reader I’ve yet to use, but….
As the number of subscriptions increased so did the memory use and periodic unresponsiveness of Outlook. Not bad unresponsiveness, but enough to interrupt when I was composing an email—stalled for 30 seconds or so every 5–10 minutes. In fairness to intraVnews, my Outlook has far too many .pst files and many of them are much larger than I am comfortable with. Some of the issues with unresponsiveness may be the intraVnews interacts with Outlook folders. All I know is that with intraVnews removed, the memory usage has been acceptable—well, back to bloated code acceptable at least—and there have been no stalls.
As I said originally, I continued to use FeedDemon as my primary reader, and now it is back to the only one on my system. Along with the upcoming (?)support for Atom feeds in FeedDemon, I would like to see some of the features of intraVnews added into it—primarily the secure feed option. That was my main reason to keep intraVnews on the system for the past week. I read all the secure feeds in intraVnews twice a day in Outlook, just for the auto-login to secure feeds. At the same time I moved those feeds to an un-used channel group in FeedDemon to keep them available but not prompting me for my credentials every time I updated my “Daily Read” channel group.
On the Outlook front, one of the things I installed on the web server was an IMAP server just so that I could migrate all my .pst files to Thunderbird or Mozilla’s mail. I’m not sure which of those I will be using yet. My primary requirements are multi-account handling, advanced filtering capabilities, 3 panel reader and use of non-proprietary mail and attachment storage. Then I can ditch Microsoft Office for good.