Can I use Gmail for ActiveSync account?

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I can't seem to get a definitive answer on this so I hope someone here can provide me with the info I need.

Using the stock rom for my TP, I have my email account all setup the way I want it to be. I am using my Gmail account as a secondary email account for send/receive using IMAP. It works well for what it does.

I download all my Gmail mail to my desktop mail client (Outlook) so that I can store my emails locally. I download them using a POP3 setup.

For those of you who know, you can only download the Gmail email on one client. If I setup another POP3 access on another client or OS, both instances of Gmail POP3 will fight each other to download the email. So, some email will get on one computer and some on another.

So, to check my Gmail elsewhere, I use IMAP. It's wonderful and generally easy.

On my TP, it's a little annoying because I now have TWO mail accounts. One is the default ActiveSync account that has nothing in it or attached to it, and the other is my Gmail IMAP account.

Can I essentially delete my Gmail IMAP account and add it to my ActiveSync account? I know Gmail finally added support for Exchange and so I guess theoretically it should work. I'm worried that Activesync will actually *download* the email to my phone and thus be that 2nd POP3 like client that'll fight my desktop to download the emails.

Am I assuming correctly here?

Update: Google Sync now allows push email. http://www.google.com/mobile/product...html#p=default

Update 2: Here's the link to set up Activesync using Outlook. http://www.google.com/support/mobile...36&topic=14299