The first thing I'll ask is does your feed validate? [validator.w3.org]

How long are you waiting for the feed to update? Sometimes it can take a while depending on the software's update schedule.

The feed validates. I've waited for over 24 hours now, but still no luck. Had other feeds come through fine both days.

What's generating the RSS and how are you updating the file?

I've built the RSS file myself, and I simply upload it to the server where my site is.

I'm probably not completely understanding how RSS works if this is wrong.

:)

What's the template for the RSS you're using? Did you write the whole thing from scratch? Did you copy a working feed and replace the info with your own? Are you using a feed editor?

Maybe you could post a snippet of code (use example.com for any domain specifics.)

I built it from scratch using some online tutorials and looking at other RSS feeds.

Heres what i have, although ive only put the one item in there. The only other item is pretty much the same except without the pubDate.

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>RSS News Feed</title>
<link>http://www.example.com/</link>
<description>Updates and latest news.</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<docs>http://www.example.com/news.xml</docs>
<item>
<title>News Title</title>
<description>
&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.example.com/image.jpg &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
See the latest news and images at &lt;a href="http://www.example.com/image/"&gt;photo blog page&lt;/a&gt;. Some more description</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://www.example.com/image/</link>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

The RSS 2.0 spec [cyber.law.harvard.edu] lets you have a <pubDate> for the channel as well. Look at how they use it in their sample feed.

Hi surrealillusions, have you finally got your own RSS feed updated automatically in Thunderbird? I am very interested in it since I am facing exactly the same issue as yours.