Problem syncing IMAP emails?

I don't know what I did but ever since yesterday my IMAP won't sync on my MacBook Pro and iPhone. The symptoms are as follows...
1) Email just keeps coming into the Inbox on my iPhone. At present it's showing 24 new mails, and growing. I am reading these emails on my MacBook Pro but they are not being marked as 'Read' on the iPhone. Also, if I go in and read them on the iPhone (just to get rid of the 'new mail' indicators), the next time I connect over Edge, 3G or whatever they all just revert back to unread? It's really annoying.
2) If I move older emails out of my Inbox and into my archived folders 'On my Mac', they just get downloaded again into Apple Mail when I do send/receive. Apple mail is not communicating with my server and removing these messages from my Inbox on the server.
3) I can't send email at all (unless I'm on my home WiFi). I keep getting an error "Can't send email. One of the recipients addresses was invalid." The addresses are always fine so I don't know why I'm getting this error.
This sounds like and Apple Mail problem to me. Or am I wrong, is it to do with my email provider?
I've just spent the last few hours removing apps from my iPhone as the 'Back-up' was taking over an hour before each sync. Now I get this problem. It's really bugging me. As an Apple user for over 10 years I'm getting really frustrated with all these glitches that keep appearing these days.
Thanks for any help!

ViscoJM wrote:
1) Email just keeps coming into the Inbox on my iPhone. At present it's showing 24 new mails, and growing. I am reading these emails on my MacBook Pro but they are not being marked as 'Read' on the iPhone. Also, if I go in and read them on the iPhone (just to get rid of the 'new mail' indicators), the next time I connect over Edge, 3G or whatever they all just revert back to unread? It's really annoying.
2) If I move older emails out of my Inbox and into my archived folders 'On my Mac', they just get downloaded again into Apple Mail when I do send/receive. Apple mail is not communicating with my server and removing these messages from my Inbox on the server.
3) I can't send email at all (unless I'm on my home WiFi). I keep getting an error "Can't send email. One of the recipients addresses was invalid." The addresses are always fine so I don't know why I'm getting this error.
Are you SURE that you are setting up your email account on your iPhone using the IMAP protocol?
It sounds like you used POP!
Also, Re 3: Have you got your service provider's SMTP server correct?
If I use my service provider to send email, I need to use smtp.sp.com, while at home (via wifi) I need to use that service provider's SMTP server -- smtp.zzz.com!
So what I did was to use a SMTP server that you need to authenticate through before you can send email - which works on EVERY network in the world!!!

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