Mail not showing as read across devices

I have my macbook, iphone, and (new) imac all setup as icloud accounts for email. All email is coming through just fine on each device. However on the new imac messages which have been "read" on the iphone or on the macbook are still showing up as unread in mail on the imac. Any clues?

I'm have the same problem with an iCloud @me.com email address across my iphone, new iPad, and MacBook Pro. Everything is running the lastest and greatest software/OS updates.

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Your email accounts have to use the imap protocol in order to sync across devices.Are all your email accounts on all devices configured to use the imap protocol?

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I have a macbook pro running on OSX and an iPhone 5. Whenever i get mail on either of my devices and i open the email and "read" it, it does not show as read on myother device. I have 3 hotmail accounts and 1 gmail account, and they all seem to have the same issue. Any ideas how to fix this?

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If I read an email on my Mac, it does not mark as read on my iPhone and i still see the new mail notification on the lock screen and there is a new mail mark on the mail app icon when i unlock the iPhone until I open up mail app and it checks manually.
When I used the Gmail Exchange server or Gmail App with Gmail account it works perfectly and when i read my mail it sync immediately on all devices and the new mail notification disappear immediately after reading the mail on the other device.
Is there any way that iCloud mail can update reading mail Immediately like Gmail Exchange server or Gmail App?

Unfortunately, iCloud only pushes new mail. In iOS, it has never pushed the updated status of mail read, moved or flagged on other devices. http://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT203545
You could try switching your iCloud mail to fetch instead of push. I've never tried this, but maybe it will fetch the read status, as per the fetch schedule.

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We tried a number of things before the advisor had the idea of clearing out the trash can. We first verified that I was able to delete email while logged into icloud.com. Then we set up a new user and linked the Mail app to my iCloud account, and the same issue presented...except in this case, there was no trash can even present because it was a new account and I could not delete any trash. We tried removing the iCloud association and then setting it back up - no change. Of note is that my Gmail account continued to work fine in terms of deleting mail. The problem was specifically with the iCloud trashcan. Once it was cleared out, I was able to delete a weeks worth of email.
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Click here: https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do
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Hopefully, you will see a list of all the devices you registered with your Apple ID, including their serial numbers. Let me know how this works out.
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