Mac Mail on my iPad

I use Mac Mail (you know, the little postage stamp icon) on all my macs. I have a bazillion folders and almost as many "rules" to sort incoming mail into those folders. It all works beautifully across all my macs (BTW I have a MobileMe account). This is my problem, one that I first noticed with my iPhone and now on my iPad...the "rules" don't exist, so the mail all goes to my inbox UNLESS I have one of my Macs on somewhere else in the house or even in my office 20 miles away - THEN the mail gets sorted according to the "rule" on that Mac. The problem gets worse -- when mail on my iPad goes to my inbox, the push notifications tell me that I have mail (red/white number on Mail icon) and the number is usually correct. However, if I have a Mac on somewhere in the universe, the number is sometimes wrong -- i.e. I'll get a zero when I have mail that is unread but sorted to other folders. Sometimes the number tells me that I have mail in my inbox and when I open Mail and display my inbox, the unread mail appears and then quickly goes away - it gets sorted to the folder according to the "rules" on the Mac that is on and running Mail. Now, another problem is that this "sorted" mail is hard to find -- it gets put into a folder but there is no number next to the folder (as there is when I run Mail on my Macs) indicating an unread message is in that folder. I have to open each individual folder, let the iPad check for mail, and see if it finds anything!
Question -- is there a way to (a) use "rules" in Mail on my iPad, (2) get Mail to display numbers next to folder names indicating that there are unread messages in that folder, and (3) have Mail correctly tell me how many unread messages I have, even if they're scattered about in the various folders (like it does on my Macs)?
That's it, nothing serious, just a pain to deal with.

Since the iPad/iPhone/touch mail app is so different from the Mac version this is something you'll just have ti deal with. The new MM mail beta has rules so you could try pre-sorting on the server side with that tool...but it has it's own side effects too. Maybe the mail app will get a boost this fall with OS 4.

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thank you

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I searched these communities and thus far have tried shutting down all background apps, restarting (multiple times) and changed the delete messages setting to "never", which really should only matter to trashed messages, not those sitting in my inbox.
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Well, cripes. My husband just saved the day for me. We had to force the iPad to take a POP account. Here's how we did that:
Create a new mail account on the iPad with a bogus email address and a different name from your problematic IMAP account. In my case, I doubled up on a number that is part of my email address. Thankfully, nobody else had that email address
When the iPad refused to add the account because it was a bogus email address and came up with the error message, THEN it let me choose the ability to add a POP account.
I was able to edit out the extra number from the bogus email address to my true email address. I had to do this in three places: the main account name, the inbox info and the outbox info, and take out the "IMAP.xxxxx " part and replace it with the "mail.xxxxxx" entry that goes with my POP account (that was listed in the settings on both of my other devices that were behaving: the iPhone and the MacPro).
Now you should have two accounts for the same email address (with two different names) showing on the iPad. Go back through mail settings and "DELETE ACCOUNT" for the IMAP version that was screwing everything up.
Inbox messages should now stay on your iPad because it is using the same type of account the other devices are.
Apple, why in the name of all things good and electronic would you make it a default to IMAP without an obvious way to choose to do a POP? Good grief I had a week of stress over this whole thing and nobody else seemed able to figure it out either.

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