HT5361 Flagging emails on multiple devices

Hi I have a 2011 Macbook Air and an iPhone 5 that work together fine. I receive emails on both (through a gmail account) and if I flag or unflag an email on either device it shows in the other, and vice versa.
I also have a 2009 iMac at home that sync's with all the normakl apps, Calender, Tasks etc through the same gmail account, it also receives the emails okay however I have never been able to get it to flag emails correctly; it completly ignores what is happening on my other devices.
Everything is pretty standard, and as I say all devices are set up with the one gmail account; anyone got any ideas, i'm all out!

Not a flaw, but a function of what type of mail account you have. Doing what you want requires an IMAP or Exchange account. Not possible with a POP account, & it sounds like you have a POP account.
That's the way POP accounts work.

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