GMail has RSS!

I can't seem to get it to work yet but GMail is now offering an RSS (well ATOM) feed of the new items in your inbox. There currently seems to be something wierd about the authenticaton system - I think the session based GMail authentication system is interfering with the HTTP authentication system they are apparently using and it won't accept my username / password. This seems to be the first widespread example of an RSS feed that uses HTTP authentication and SSL to personalize it. UPDATE: The ATOM button described in the article is now gone, but my RSS reader was still attached to the feed URL which is https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom and is now authenticating with HTTP Authentication. Yay! If anything will push people to use desktop aggregators, this will.