Welcome to Nokia's Maemo beta-testing programme :-)
Whats to set up? You can access gmail.com in the web browser and have the full gmail interface - search, threads, ...
All that is missing is a desktop applet to notify you of new messages. Is there one? (other than using modest just as a notifier)

Sure you can always download using IMAP or NM to modest. But modest is aptly named, compared to the gmail web interface.

BTW, if you are going to use "shoot" as a euphemism for "shít", there is no need to asterisk out the vowels.