Not receiving certain messages on iPad and Mac

I'm not sure how long this has been happening, but I recently discovered I'm not receiving some of the emails people are sending. It seems to happen only a small percentage of the time, but there's no rhyme nor reason to it. I'll receive most messages from, say, my husband or mom, but then they'll ask if I got a particular email and I haven't. I've looked in the spam and trash folders, nothing. This is happening on both my ipad and my mac. Tried looking for a solution and found nothing with no options to email Apple about it.
Ideas?

Oh, and no, my folders are not full. I delete messages and trash regularly.

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Using FaceTime http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4319
Troubleshooting FaceTime http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3367
The Complete Guide to FaceTime + iMessage: Setup, Use, and Troubleshooting
http://tinyurl.com/a7odey8
Troubleshooting FaceTime and iMessage activation
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4268
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3510
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iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use with FaceTime and iMessage
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How to Set Up & Use iMessage on iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch with iOS
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http://tinyurl.com/k683gr4
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http://www.igeeksblog.com/troubleshooting-imessage-issues/
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SETUP:
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ON MY MAC
RSS
or if you've created some notes on your Mac Mail, you'll see:
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REMINDER
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ON MY MAC
RSS
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So in Mail, in the top of the window create a new Note, click the notepad icon to the right of the New Message.
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4. Click "Apply" at the bottom of the page and your iPad and Mac will begin to sync. It may take awhile as I believe it is doing both a sync and backup.
Once this process is done, you'll see your notes fully sync'd on your iPad and Mac. Yea! but there's more...
5. Notes created in Mac Mail show up in 2 places: your MAILBOXES > Inbox and under REMINDERS > Notes, and if you delete the Mac Mail note in your inbox, it deletes the note in your REMINDERS.
This is unfortunate and not great interface design IMHO and should be remedied.
Luckily the last Tier 2 AppleCare tech I just spoke with had a workaround for this, which is:
6. Create a new mailbox inside Notes under REMINDERS. Click Notes, then go to Mailbox > New Mailbox... in the top of your monitor screen.
Under the location pulldown it should show a notepad icon and On My Mac.
For the Name, I called my new mailbox "iPad Notes" Then click OK.
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MAILBOXES
REMINDERS
-Notes
--iPad Notes
ON MY MAC
RSS
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Apparently, in iOS 4.2, you'll be able to use MobileMe to sync Notes just like Calendar and Contacts. We'll see.
I hope this is helpful. It took me awhile to get all this set up, and being that I am not an AppleCare tech, if you have questions instead of asking me, I recommend you call AppleCare and review with them. Let them know I got the above info from Tier 2 support.
Once iOS 4.2 and Lion come out, all this may, hopefully be a simpler process, but as of this writing, pre 4.2 and Lion, this is now working on my iPad and Mac Pro.
Good Luck.
Steven

Thanks ,,, but when I "Go to System Preferences on your Mac > MobileMe > Sync > and make sure Notes is checked"
I CANNOT check the "Notes". It is NOT highlighted. MAYBE because I am NOT logged-in to mail.mac.com?
Is this why my Sync Notes between MacBook Pro and iPAD 2 does NOT work?
How do I fix it?
Also I continue to get Error Message "smtp.mail.com" password not accepted.
I DO NOT know my mail.mac.com password.

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Not receiving certain messages on iPad and Mac

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