RSS Refresh Times in OperaMail

RSS Refresh Times in OperaMail

Last night I set up a bunch of RSS feeds in OperaMail (10.51). I generally like the way it works, but something seems to be missing. I can't simply do a manual refresh on them. I tried right-clicking on the feed title in the Feeds folder, but there's nothing in the menu that even remotely looks like a refresh function.

Then, on the feed at http://www.mapinc.org/xml/397, I had set the update time to one hour last night. I got up this morning to find that the update time had been changed back to ten hours. To try to refresh it, changed the update time on the feed to five minutes, and that did download new articles after a five minute wait time. Then I noticed the update time was changed back to ten hours. I didn't like that at all. I don't need updates every five minutes, but I'd like to set it to one or three hours, or have an "update now" item added to the context menu.

Am I missing something?

Note: This is my second day using Opera after abandoning the latest Firefox, which had become kind of problematic in various ways. I really like Opera, despite a few graphical glitches when scrolling on YouTube, and want to continue using it.


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Welcome to the My Opera community.

Opera honors the feed author's wishes for how often you can check the feed for updates. If you set the update interval to something that's not allowed, Opera will reset it on you. It's a bug that Opera doesn't tell you about it though.

You need to examine the source of the feed to see what the TTL time is set to. If it's set to hight, ask the author of the feed to adjust it.

Also note that certain WordPress plug-ins will put a 24 hour ttl in a blog's feed and the author of the blog might not even realize it. One of these plug-ins doesn't even offer a way for you to lower it (without modifying the source of the plug-in).

For manually updating feeds, open the message list for a feed and click the update button on the toolbar. Pressing F5 while the message list is focused should work too.

Thanks for the response. F5 works perfectly. I thought I tried that last night, and maybe I did; I apparently didn't realize that it was trying to update. The skin I'm using doesn't have much contrast in the status bar, so with the blinding whiteness of a large background so close to the status bar, my attention isn't as easily grabbed by status bar animations, but it does work. As long as there's a way to refresh, I'm happy.

Thanks again,
Damaeus

PS I can't get over how sleek this browser is, and how smoothly it operates and scrolls pages. I had tried much older versions of Opera (probably version 4 or earlier) and wasn't all that impressed, but I'm glad to have 10.51.