I've recently installed FeedDemon 2.0.0.20.  I'd previously used version 1.5 with Bloglines and everything was fine.  However, since installing 2.0.0.20, problems have started to occur.

Firstly, I've noticed that my Bloglines feeds are not syncing any more.  FeedDemon is still retrieving new feed content, but is no longer marking downloaded items as read within Bloglines.  All of my Bloglines feeds are showing new items that go back to the date when I installed FeedDemon 2.

Not being cynical or anything :-) but I figured FeedDemon is part of Newsgator now, so maybe the Newsgator sync would work better.  I had an online account for Newsgator that I set up a while ago when I was comparing features of web based readers, so I tried to get that going.  However, it appears that Newsgator syncing doesn't work from behind a proxy.

In FeedDemon, I went to Tools, Options and then clicked the Synchronization button.  I entered my username and password for Newsgator, then clicked the Choose button to pick a location.  However, all I get is a dialog with [server error] in it.  This is running on a corporate laptop, so when I got it home I plugged it in to my ADSL and this dialog correctly displayed the locations I have defined in Newsgator.  Everything else seems to work from behind the proxy, but not this particular feature.

If I try to import my Newsgator feeds into FeedDemon, a similar proxy related problem occurs.  I click on File, Import Feeds, select Import my Newsgator subscriptions and then click Next.  For a split second, the next dialog appears, but immediately it flicks back to the previous dialog.  I'm guessing this is again related to not being able to contact Newsgator through the proxy.

This is pretty disappointing.  FeedDemon 2 looks great and FeedStation seems to be working just fine - either at home or through my company proxy server.  However, being unable to sync feeds so I can read them at work, offline on the train or at home on my laptop or personal PC is a key feature for me.

Is anyone else having similar proxy related problems?

Yup, the proxy details are all there.  FeedDemon (now) works perfectly well through the proxy with Bloglines sync and standalone feeds are fine too.  It's purely Newsgator sync that isn't working.  In fact, even trying to set the sync options fails.  If I try to view/change locations in Tools -> Options -> Synchronisation I just get a the message "[server error]" appearing in the box.  Again, if I try this at home, it works fine - thus verifying that this seems to be a failure of FeedDemon to handle proxies when using Newsgator sync.

Cheers,
Mark.

Well, if other people have got Newsgator/FD syncing happily over a proxy, them I'm more than happy to accept it's a problem with the proxy servers at work.  They're pretty poor and lots of stuff that isn't explicity blocked just doesn't work.  I've got it all working with Bloglines now, so I'm happy with that solution.

Cheers,
Mark

There definitely seem to be some issues regarding NG sync through proxies.  See: http://www.newsgator.com/forum/shwmessage.aspx?ForumID=14&MessageID=15579&TopicPage=2

There's a (completely unofficial) workaround in that thread.

Thanks for the tip.  I've had a look through that post and it looks as though I'm hitting the exact same problem.  I'll wager if I decide to convert from trial to full I'll have the same activation problems if I try it at work.  I tried to go for the "unofficial solution", but looks like a web content filter is stopping me from getting to the download!

There are going to be lots of corporate customers who cannot get through their firewall/proxy and most of them wont persevere as long as me or the poster on the other thread.  They'll just think it's not meant to be and give up pretty quickly.  Even if this is a proxy config problem, it's NewsGator that looks bad from the user's perspective.  Especially as non-NG syncronised feeds, Bloglines feeds and FeedStation all seem to work fine.