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I have 2 macs and so have the same mail accounts on both.
With my @mac mail and my other provider's mail, I have no problem.
However, with gmail only one computer receives mails - whichever computer gets mail first. The email will stay on the gmail board but will not then go to the other mac (although it will go to the iPhone).
I am configured to POP, although to IMAP it was the same.
I have looked all over for buttons to press and found nothing.
Does anyone have some ideas that I can do?
Thanks very much for any help.

Hi,
I think you need to be using IMAP for everything to stay in sync. The @mac.com mail uses IMAP.
Make sure you've changed the settings for your gmail account at www.gmail.com to use IMAP and then change both computers to make sure each account is configured to retrieve the email via IMAP.

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