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Originally Posted by HarryT
Is it possible to configure MobileMe to download mail from a POP3 account and then push it to the mobile device?
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Yes, you can. From the MobileMe help pages:
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You can use MobileMe Mail to check a separate POP email account in addition to your MobileMe Mail account. This means that your email messages from these accounts are delivered to MobileMe Mail.
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Not IMAP, but POP3 only. POP3 is not a syncing protocol: you get messages from a server and anything you do locally isn't synced back to that server.
So, if you get your GMail through POP3, MobileMe will fetch it and put it into your inbox. If you delete one of these, it will not be deleted from the GMail system.
As of 4 days ago, when using the HTTP interface, MobileMe can now send using GMail's SMTP servers. This means when you reply to a message that was originally sent to your GMail account, the reply will get sent from GMail. Again, only via the web interface, not Mail on the iPad/iPhone.
Caveat: You've been able to do this for a few years now (AFAIK), but I've never gotten GMail to work properly. Not sure why.
Instead, I have GMail forward my messages to MobileMe (as suggested above). It's effectively the exact same setup, but less of a PITA to set up.