Green Thing has been selected by the Steve Wright programme on BBC Radio 2 as their Website Of The Day. I did that! (well, part of it -the real hard work was done by Tom and Colin…)
Archive for 28 November 2007
Password-protected RSS feeds in Mail are a royal PITA to set up – basically Mail.app doesn’t support password authentication natively (or at least it doesn’t support entering the uid/passwords natively.) Here’s a sneaky work-around:
* Add the feed into Mail.app as normal, and let it whinge about not having a password
* Go to Safari, and set it to be the default RSS reader if it isn’t already
* Drop the feed URL into the address field, and respond to the authentication challenge – and allow the details to be saved into your Keychain
* Go back to Mail, where the feed will have automagically updated using the Keychain settings.
Apparently the “make Safari the default reader” step is optional, but your 1.609344 kilometerage may vary.
