Google has announced an iPad-friendly version of GMail. Just FYI: This doesn’t appear to have hit custom domains yet, so you’ll need an actual @gmail.com address to see it. You can fake your user agent to see it in desktop Safari or Firefox (using the User Agent Switcher):
Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B314 Safari/531.21.10