diaspora private mail seems to work now - but there's an obfuscation leak via the conversation structure that needs to be dealt with.

include/items.php

@@ -1428,6 +1428,8 @@ function get_atom_elements($feed,$item,&$author) {
 	$res['title'] = unxmlify($item->get_title());
 	$res['body'] = unxmlify($item->get_content());
 	$res['plink'] = unxmlify($item->get_link(0));
+	$res['item_flags'] = ITEM_RSS;
+
 
 	// removing the content of the title if its identically to the body
 	// This helps with auto generated titles e.g. from tumblr
@@ -3196,7 +3198,6 @@ function mail_store($arr) {
 }
 
 
-
 /**
  *
  * consume_feed - process atom feed and update anything/everything we might need to update