IMap Mail Vaporizes

My wife and I run the business with two macs and my iphone all using mail accounts set up as imap accounts. The problem is that they do't stay in synch with each other unless you quit mail and come back and the biggest issue is that emails just periodically vaporize - disappear - vaporive. Nothing in Sent, nothing in Drafts, just gone.
HELP!!!!! I really don't want to go back to pop accounts or have to use webmail.

revDAVE wrote:
IMAP mail issues....
2 - I spoke with my email tech people and they said a KNOWN global imap issue is : it can wreak havok on the mail when you have MORE than 1 computer or device actively using the SAME account at the SAME time... the server gets confused with mail ID's when you start moving emails around on 1 computer when another computer is looking at same account at same time....
I should switch to a different ISP.
This has not been my experience with MobileMe . I have two computers on 24/7 looking at the same IMAP account and checking for mail every five minutes. I move mail around on whichever is convenient.

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