IPhone and iPad receive email but not iMac

This is an intermittent problem – sometimes the iMac receives mail and sometimes not, but they always show up on the iPhone and iPad.  And this problem has occurred without any changesbeing made in Settings.
I'm using Hotmail/Outlook, but I have a friend who is using Gmail and she has the same problem.  At first I thought it might have to do with using up the 5 GB storage Hotmail/Outlook allows, so I started deleteing messages from the Inbox, but that hasn't made a difference.  Plus, Hotmail/Outlook says that as we approach the 5 GB capacity a message will be sent alerting us to delete messages to make more room for new ones.

A very easy way to tell if you have an IMAP email account .....
If you go to your email account in the Mail app and look at the window where your inbox, trash folder and sent folder are - if there is an Edit button at the top of the window - tap that and see if Add Mailbox appears at the bottom. If it does you have an IMAP email account.
Your email provider would have to offer IMAP in order for you to set up an account this way. Some email providers offer both options.
If you want to know the basics, you can read this. There is tons of information available on the Internet that you can read about this.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/pop-vs-imap/

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