Ask YODA recap for March – Barracuda Spam plugin for Outlook and Reading blogs in Outlook
March 26th, 2008 by Audrey WilliamsWe had a great session this month with questions about Banner, the Luminis Content Management System (LCMS) that will be running our college website eventually, Outlook and more! Here are two demonstrations of interest to share with those who could not be there:
First – Installing the Barracuda Plug-in for Outlook
There is a plug-in you can install into Outlook on your computer that will give you two new buttons along the top right of Outlook. These buttons help you train the Barracuda Spam filter so it can identify spam even better. Here’s a quick rundown of how to do it:Go to the Barracuda login page
Click on the Get Mail Client Plugins link (see below)
A new window will open. Click the “Download Now” button.
Open that downloaded file and install the plugin.Restart Outlook and you will see two new buttons at the top right. The red one is to identify spam and the green one is clear messages as not spam.
Here is complete documentation on installing the plugin.
Second – Adding RSS feeds to Outlook 2007
If you have upgraded to Office 2007, your Outlook client now includes the ability to read RSS feeds. RSS feeds (read more about them on the Technology Tuesday archive blog) are basically broadcasts from sites about when they are updated and what the new content contains so you can decide to read it or not. Most news sites, like CNN, have them as do all blogs and many other regularly updated sites. Here is how to add an RSS feed to your Outlook client.
In a nutshell,
- locate the RSS feed on a page (look for the orange RSS logo or a link that says RSS feed)
- Right click and copy the RSS feed URL (it will end with rss.xml or rss=2 or something else like that)
- Go to Outlook and right click on the RSS folder down on the left below your email folders. Choose Add New RSS feed.
- Paste in the URL you just copied and click okay.
- Feed is verified and shows up just like email.
- Cool!