Mail Sync between devices

Hi.
I have read several discussions but still have not found a solution. I have iphone 5S, Ipad Mini and Mac. When using Mail, both iphone 5S and Ipad are synced. This means that when I read and delete one email in one device (ie iphone), the other one (ie ipad mini) recognizes what i have done and I no longer find the email in any of the two. This is great! However, this sync does not happen in my Mac. Even though the email was deleted in iphone and ipad mini, I still find it in the Mac. This happens on the other way around as well. Based on what I have read, this is because my Mail account in the Mac is a POP instead of IMAP which would have allowed all the devices to be synced. The answers I have read are towards creating a new mail account and configure it as an IMAP one. However, changing an email account poses a big challenge. There are multiple subscriptions, friends, suppliers, etc with the email address. And changing the account will require updating all those stakeholders with the new email which I wouldnt like to do. I tried a workaround by creating a new IMAP account (ie NEW) and forward emails automatically from the OLD one to this NEW. And opening only the NEW account in all the devices. In the Mac I disabled the OLD POP account. But this configuration was not working very well. So I decided to enable the OLD POP account again. When I did this, my inbox filled with hundreds of historic emails that I had organized in mailboxes. I am noticing that these are duplicated! I opened a new mailbox, titled it as OLD and moved all the inbox into it to check it in the future. Plus, I started seeing in the activity box that Mail is now checking for thousands of incoming messages. I decided to hide this activity box.
So now, I am back to my original setting of a POP account, with a new mailbox with duplicated emails and a hidden activity box which apparently is searching for incoming emails! Quite an experience and without resolving what I tried to do!
Question: Is there a way to have the devices synced including Mac, iphone and Ipad Mini without loosing the email address originally configured in Mail Mac as a POP account?
I appreciate your responses...
Cesar

Csound1 and Eric: THANK YOU very much!!! Your feedback helped me solve my situation!!! Here is what I did in case anyone else wants to see what I did and can help them as well:
BACKING UP: I backed up my Mail first in case I did something bad during the process. Since I am using OSX Version 10.9.2, I was not able to see the Library/Mail. So, in Finder, I went to the "Go" in the Menu bar and pressed the alt key. I was then able to see the Library folder which I opened it. I looked the Mail folder and did a copy in an external hard drive. I went then to Preferences folder and copied the file com.apple.mail.plist.lockfile in my external hard drive. Since I wanted to be completely sure, I also did an export of each mailbox from the Mac to the external hard drive. With those 2 back ups, I proceeded with the next step.
DELETING IN iPHONE AND iPAD: I deleted the Mail account in my iphone and ipad. Not sure if this is required but wanted to start fresh.
CREATING iMAP ACCOUNT IN MAC: Then in Mail application in the Mac, I went to Mail in Menu bar and into Preferences. Under Account, I highlighted my POP account and pressed the - sign thus erasing it. I then pressed the + sign and configured the Account again with my same email address as you guys suggested. The Account was created as an IMAP one.
ORGANIZING AND TESTING: Suddenly many emails started to enter my inbox. Not to worry. I just noticed that since the Mail in Mac was not synching, the emails under the Gmail account when I entered it through the internet, were still there. Once I got the emails in my Mac inbox, I created a new Mailbox and moved all the inbox emails to it. I needed this so that the inbox in the Gmail account using internet, also was freed. With this, both inbox in Mac and Gmail in internet were now the same. I tested sending an email to my email address and it appeared in both the Mac and Gmail internet account. I deleted in one side and saw it also deleted in the other one! Good synch! So far, very good!
CONFIGURING iPHONE and iPAD: Finally, I configured the Mail in iPad Mini and then in iPhone. And tested sending some emails from different devices and erasing them from different ones as well. All devices are now synching!!!!
Thank you once again and have a Great day!!!

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