Explain mail and iCloud...sync all accounts?

Can someone explain if iCloud syncs your email addresses and email across devices? I have a handful of email accounts (work, personal, band, etc). I mainly use mail on my iPhone and my pc...never on my iPad because if I receive an email there, I won't have it on my phone later it I need access to it.
Does iCloud sync email accounts across devices? If so, how can I set this up to work?
To clarify, I want to open mail on my phone, receive new mail, close the mail app...then go to my iPad, open mail app and see the new mail I just received on the phone. Is this possible without having to do any forwarded with the me.com account?
Thanks in advance

I tried it all. Didn't work.
I also do have the same problem as described here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/21993223#21993223.
The iCloud mail configuration from within System Preferences > iCloud does not work. I can tick Contacts and Notes but the sync does not work either.
Really not sure what to try next.

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Hello Folks! I also posted this question two days ago in the iCloud forum, but have yet to see anyone make a reply or observation.
Here is what I'm trying to validate...
Recently a good friend's account was hacked... needless to say they've finally turned on two factor authentication. Here's what's I'd like to confirm, they have several devices syncing with iCloud. One of those devices is an iPad mini, which at the time of the hack, where all the addresses in the address book and current at the time mails where deleted, was turned off, and had no battery left meaning it was dead. The iPad has now been backed up to a different computer. We can see a lot of the original emails in the main inbox(s) on the device that had not been deleted from when the hack occurred.
When we finally log this device in will it merge or ask us to merge all the email, as it does with contacts on the iPad and place them in iCloud, or will they be overwritten since iCloud doesn't think they exist anymore?
Appreciate your input and suggestions on this one, simply because if we log in and they are overwritten they're gone...
THX
Mr. "P"

For Contacts, when you log into iCloud and enable contacts, it will merge contacts on that device to iCloud. Best to check at iCloud.com website to see if all your info is there and correct. I would just delete all the contact list on that device before enabling contacts in iCloud. When you do enable contacts on it, it will populate with the iCloud contacts on the server.
Apple Mail is a bit different. It doesn't merge mail. It is an IMAP account and when you enable iCloud mail, it will populate the server mailboxes with whats on the server. For you to have signed out of iCloud and Apple Mail and still have messages on the device has to mean that they are stored locally on the device. The inbox is strictly server based and you shouldn't have any messages left there when you sign out of iCloud.
So check iCloud.com website and see what messages are there. That will be what will download when you enable iCloud mail on that device. For the other devices, check to see what messages are there and how they are stored. If you are not storing the messages on the server in the main mailboxes such as Sent, Trash. & Junk, then those will only be on those devices. Any local mailboxes you created are not affected by signing in or out of iCloud.
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Hi Everybody,
This is a really strange problem. My mail just stopped receiving emails including my icloud emails and other web accounts (on my macbook pro and my iphone). Furthermore notes and contacts are not syncronized betwen devices anymore.
I can access my icloud mails through the webportal. If I add an IMAP account to mail for my other mail accounts it also works. But the pop3 accounts and the icloud account in mail just stopped receiving mail. I can send out mails.
I have tried the regular troubleshoot advices but nothing worked.
Can anybody help me? Thanks.

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I also do have the same problem as described here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/21993223#21993223.
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Really not sure what to try next.

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