Redirecting Multiple IMAP and POP Accounts to iCloud?

My ultimate goal is be able to sync all of my mail between my desktop and laptop Macs (both on Yosemite). I have 8 email accounts — a few IMAPs, but mostly POPs. I have thousands and thousands of emails saved in Apple Mail mailboxes. Rather than converting each account individually to IMAP, can I redirect all of them to iCloud? And, if so, can I then maintain all of those accounts and all of those mailboxes, without countless hours of work?

Excellent and helpful answer, Roger. Thank you very much. That opened my eyes to a couple of things.
I've been dragging my feet (for a year or two) on doing this, in part because I feel more confident in storing my massive email history locally than somewhere that I can't see. It's just old-school thinking. I do have my Apple Calendar and Contacts now in iCloud, so an old dog can learn new tricks. Still, I back them up locally, maybe once a week, plus I have Time Machine going all the time. And I back up my Mail and Mail Downloads folders, both for safekeeping, as well as to bring my laptop momentarily up-to-date with my desktop Apple Mail.
So, if I were to store my entire Apple Mail life in iCloud, with all of my individual email accounts actually living there (not just pointed there, as I was considering), is there an easy and fast way to keep a local backup? (Zipping and backing up the Mail and Mail Downloads folders literally takes something like four hours.) Or would Time Machine also be backing up what's in the cloud, too, without any effort?
And now to you other eye-opening point about replying. If I actually convert all of my accounts to IMAP and sync all of those accounts with iCloud, would I then be able to send and receive emails as I do now, through my other servers, and using my various email addresses and signatures? By the way, my primary server is Comcast, if that makes any difference.

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