now I can read my gmail inbox using FeedDemon. I set up a channel as follows:
http://user:[email protected]/gmail/feed/atom/
I uninstalled google desktop and reinstalled X1
I've tried X1 in the past and liked it but it suffered from frequent crashes. Now I have an updated version and it is going much better. I can find anything in my 9GB+ source code collection in a blink. I have set to index once a day instead of every hour. The files are mostly static and few change daily, so that works well.
I do not use it to index outlook or anything else because outlook is a pain as it is, i don't need the added headache of dealing with add-ins.