Mime, Atom feed or IMapx for reading from gmail

Question

Hi,

I am little confused as to what is the best approach for reading mails from gmail Here are the links that I reffered:

http://hellowebapps.com/products/imapx/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1530724/imap-on-c-download-mails-and-attachments

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/989986/reading-atom-feed-of-gmail-account-from-c

I have not tired MIME, however IMAPX needs dll, ( I need a free one)

and Atom feed, gives the output in xml format, whereas I need to get the mail contents and mark those mails as read also.

Also, if any one knows how to identify if there is any link in the mail, and how to navigate to the same (sorry could not find anything on this)

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Edit: I am not able to connect to gmail using IMAPX dll on the site mentioned "http://hellowebapps.com/products/imapx/"

thanks.