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I have one email account on the iPad.
I can't seem to delete emails from my iPad that then get deleted on the server so that when i open up my inbox on my MAC the email has gone - this is also true the other way around.
If i delete my emails on my MAC, they always appear on my iPad.
I've gone into settings and clicked on "Delete from server when removed from inbox" but this has not helped.
Any ideas?

There is no option to delete messages from the server after being downloaded with an IMAP account with any email client.
If you delete a received message from the account's Inbox mailbox with the email client used on your computer for accessing the account, the message will be removed from the account's Inbox mailbox automatically when accessing the account's Inbox mailbox with the iPhone's Mail client, and vice-versa. Read a received message with the iPhone's Mail client without deleting the message with the message marked as read, and the message will be marked as read automatically when accessing the account's Inbox mailbox with the email client used on your computer for accessing the account, and vice-versa.

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