I can't sync my email accounts to my iOS devices.

All my IMAP emails accounts sync to my computers via iCloud and Internet Accounts in the system preferences and Apple Mail. How do I sync them to my iOS device? Shouldn't it be automatic?
iTunes used to have a feature to replace email accounts from this computer top force it to a device. What happened to that? All software is current and up to date we all on 10.9.
Please help.

Hi dpavid,
Hi again, and I’m sorry I did not completely understand your situation on the first try. It sounds like your other (non-iCloud) email IMAP accounts are not syncing with your iOS devices.
This might seem like an odd question, but have you actually set up those email accounts on these devices? iCloud does not actually do this for you, each account, such as Gmail, Yahoo or any other mail service provider, needs to be set up on each device you are using it with.
Information on how to set up an account can be found in this document -
iPhone User Guide
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
Specifically -
Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account.
See page 16 under Set up mail and other accounts.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

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