Gmail on iPad – How to Use Desktop Version

Ok, after a bit of playing around and the news that it should be possible, I've got it working. What's is strange because Display images below setting seems to stick even if you leave that mail and go back quite a while later, but never in the Entire message view.

Yet it seems that if you select Always display images from xxx then all images appear in the Entire message, which is what I was after.

Outlook cannot set up an account that uses ActiveSync, it can only speak the native Exchange protocol through RPC (or RPC over HTTPS, also known as Outlook Anywhere).

Gmail only publishes an ActiveSync endpoint, so unfortunately on the desktop you'll need to use IMAP for email and Google Calendar Sync for calendars.

It appears that Outlook 2007 has proper support for calendars over WebDAV, so you might give that a try. You still won't be using the Exchange protocol, but at least you won't need a program sitting around just to sync calendars.