How to Receive Network Alert Notifications

The Junction Networks Network Alert blog entries are able to be subscribed to via an RSS feed. With an RSS feed, any Network Alert announcement can instantly be viewed either in your browser or e-mail client.

To subscribe to a Junction Networks RSS feed through your browser, scroll to the bottom of any Blog section and click on the orange RSS feed icon.

The Junction Networks Network Alert feed URL is:
http://www.junctionnetworks.com/blog/category/network-alerts/feed

To subscribe to a Junction Networks RSS feed through your e-mail client, follow one of the following examples:

Outlook RSS

1. On the Tools menu, click Account Settings.
2. On the RSS Feeds tab, click New.
3. In the New RSS Feed dialog box, type:
http://www.junctionnetworks.com/blog/category/network-alerts/feed
4. Click Add.
5. Click OK.

Apple Mail

1. On the File menu, click Add RSS Feeds....
2. Choose Specify a Custom Feeds URL.
3. Type feed://www.junctionnetworks.com/blog/category/network-alerts/feed into the text box.
4. Check Show in Inbox.
5. Click OK.

Thunderbird RSS

Before you can subscribe to any RSS feeds, you first need to create an RSS account. To do so:

1. Go to the "File" menu and select "New -> Account". Alternatively, you can go to the "Tools" menu and select "Account Settings", and click on the "Add Account" button.
2. In the dialog box that pops up, select "RSS News & Blogs" and press the "Next" button.
3. Enter an account name, press the "Next" button, and finally press the "Finish" button. This new account will now appear in the folders pane in the main Thunderbird window.

Note: if the option to create an RSS account does not even appear, it is probably because you chose a "Custom" (rather than "Standard") install of Thunderbird, and you did not select to include RSS Support in your installation. In that case, you should uninstall Thunderbird and reinstall it, making sure to include the RSS option this time.

You subscribe to a feed through the "RSS Subscriptions" dialog, which can be accessed in any of these ways:

* Right-click on the account name in the folders pane and select "Subscribe".
* Click on the account name in the folders pane, and then click on the "Manage Subscriptions" link in the main Thunderbird window.
* Go to "Tools -> Account Settings", click on the account name in the left-hand pane, and then click the "Manage Subscriptions" button.

Once you've brought up the "RSS Subscriptions" dialog, all you need to do to subscribe to an RSS feed is click the "Add" button, enter the URL for the feed into the box - http://www.junctionnetworks.com/blog/category/network-alerts/feed - for the Junction Networks Network Alert feed, and click "OK". After the feed is verified, it will then appear in the "RSS Subscriptions" dialog and in the folders pane under the account.

In the same way, you can add more feeds under a single RSS account. If you subscribe to numerous feeds, you may wish to create more than one RSS News & Blogs account, each with multiple subscribed feeds. You could subscribe not only the the Junction Networks Network Alert feed, but also to any of the Junction Networks Blog topics.