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Google announce last week via Google Operating System blog that GMail has a very cool feature that not available in any other webmail applications which is …

» feeds for unread messages «

• http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/ »» shows the most recent unread items from your inbox.
• http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/labelname/ »» but it would be nice to have a comprehensive listing of all the unread messages, not just the ones that have a certain label.
• http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/unread/ »» In the URLs above, you can replace “http” with “https” for more security.

However, the bad news is that Gmail’s feeds require authentication, so they don’t work in many feed readers, like Google Reader or iGoogle. There are some feed readers that support password-protected feeds: Below are the list that showing what Desktop feed readers listed by Google that support Atom 0.3, SSL/HTTPS, and HTTP authentication.

Desktop feed readers »

Windows

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• BottomFeeder: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/BottomFeeder/
• FeedDemon: http://www.feeddemon.com/
• NewsGator: http://www.newsgator.com/
• NewzCrawler: http://www.newzcrawler.com/
• SharpReader: http://www.sharpreader.net/

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Mac OS X

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• BottomFeeder: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/BottomFeeder/
• NetNewsWire: http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
• Shrook 2 : http://www.fondantfancies.com/shrook/

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Linux

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• BottomFeeder: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/BottomFeeder/

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Netvibes is a notable example of online feed reader that supports authenticated feeds.

(A Feed for Unread GMail Messages via Google Operating System)