Reading iPad Mail: Doesn't sync and show read on iMac

I am currently using iCloud services and read almost all of my mail on my iPad. I also have that same account setup on my iMac Mail.  When I finish reading my emails on my iPad and it shows no new Mail notifications when I log into my iMac it still shows that I have 30 or so mail notifiactions.  These are all the messages are already read on my iPad.
How does this functionality work?  I must be missing something but this is very frustrating.
Thanks,
Ricky

I'm new here so you'll have to bear with me if my explanation needs work!
I suspect that your problem may be that your Mac is storing the sent stuff on the local folder (probably hapening with junk and trash too???) If this is the case then...
Make sure you have the correct IMAP path prefix - entered in Mail Preferences > Accounts > Advanced - I believe that the prefix you need is Gmail
Quit Mail so it doesn't interfere with what you're doing,
Open  ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist with the Property List Editor
Take a back up copy (I saved mine to desk top) of com.apple.mail.plist
Look for the key named MailAccounts and click the arrow to expand it
you should see all your accounts indexed as 0, 1, 2, etx
Find your IMAP accounts (check that the key AccountType is IMAPAccount)
Find the key SentMessagesMailboxName and change it to Gmail/Sent (substitute INBOX for IMAP Path Prefix if incorrect)
Find the key TrashMailboxName and change it to Gmail/Trash
I think I had to do the same with junk too
Hope that is of some use or at least makes enough sense :-)

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