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This is a werid one but hoping somehere here can help or at the very least someone from Apple is listening.
I'm using several Gmail accounts across all of my macs and iPhone / iPad. To be specific:
13" MacBook Air - Mid 2011
13" MacBook Pro - Mid 2012
27" iMac - Mid 2012
iPhone 5s
iPad Mini
(All Macs are running 10.9 with the latest build of Mac Mail 7 (1822). All software updates are performed on all machines. Both iDevices are iOS7 latest versions.)
All of my emails (5 gmail accounts and 2 exchange accounts) but one (a Gmail account) work just fine across all devices. I have one Gmail account that acts weird, but only on one mac (iMac 27"). Here is the issue:
On this account, all devices EXCEPT the iMac, when I read a message it shows up as read on all other devices. When I delete a message it deletes from all other devices (but is still accessable from All Mail folder). However on the iMac, it never shows up as read (still shows the blue dot next to it and still shows a number next to the mailbox name). If I delete a message on another device, someimtes on the iMac is remains in the inbox, sometimes it deletes.
Some further info that might help / things I have tried:
I tried Removing the acocunt and re-adding it to Mail.
I have tried reindexing all mail per Apple's method. This works, but as new mail comes in, and gets read on other devices, the problem returns.
I have tried to "rebuild mailbox" about 20 times. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. The problem always returns as above, after reading / deleting mail on other devices.
Sometimes just rebooting Mail seems to catch some of the items deleted on other devices, but not mail that is read on other devices
I also noticed that many of these mail itmes were labeled as "important" in GMail so I went in and switched Gmail out of the "important" mode and back to the classic. Then I reindexed and rebuilt again just to be sure. Now the mail is no longer labled Important, but the read counts are not correct and I'm still showing read mail as unread on this one device.
I have also deeply compared mail on my iMac and my MBA. All settings in preferences are the same.
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? It's making it very hard to use my iMac for work and it's my primary machine. I'm cringing at the alternatives (outlook is simply not an option for me)

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