Deleted RSS Feeds Reappear in Mail once Snow Leopard is Installed

Since installing Snow Leopard, I and others on this forum have noticed that deleted RSS feeds are now returning and mixing together with the ones that were retained. In my Mail Preferences for RSS feeds, I have it set to remove items manually. (Snow Leopard must have snuck in a "put back automatically" feature.)

This was not a problem before Snow Leopard. Very annoying when you delete items you don't need, only to have months-worth of them return and get mixed in with the ones you wanted to keep. Apple created a support document regarding this problem called, "Mac OS X v10.6: Cannot delete some RSS feeds in Mail" (Article TS3033). Here is the entire text of the article:

Symptoms: Some RSS feeds you delete in Mail may re-appear later.
Resolution: If this occurs, delete the feed again.

Unfortunately, deleting the feed again does not always resolve problem, as the support document claims. I have tried deleting unwanted feeds, over and over, but they still keep coming back each time I reboot.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Oct 24, 2009 9:46 PM

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Nov 5, 2009 5:59 AM in response to Merged Content 1

I've had this problem for months! And I don't have Snow Leopard. I am running Mail on 10.5.8.

The messages from the feeds just randomly appear, no matter what. It can occur after a few months or even after a few days of no problems. I have tried:

• deleting the messages in individual feeds,
• deleting and re-subscribing to the feeds,
• deleted just the messages and then erasing them (by right-clicking the feed and selecting "Erase deleted messages")

I have set up my Mail account on another user on my machine, and they don't have that problem with the exact same RSS feeds. So it's unique to just one (admin) user.

And my preferences are set to remove articles manually.

This is so frustrating! Anyone out there have a fix?

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