Routing POP account through .Mac e-mail

Hello,
I recently posted a topic regarding how to keep my POP mailboxes identical on both my Mac Pro and iBook. Dissapointingly I found out that this is not possible, and the cloesest thing I could get to this would be to use the Mail preferance "Remove from server when moved from inbox". So my question is...I came up with a wild idea that I may be able to set up my ISP POP account to automatically foward all messages to my .Mac account. This would solve my problem because .Mac accounts (to my knowledge) are set up as IMAP (or something like it) which would allow me to sync both computers. If I were able to do this it would help me accomplish what I'd like to do, which is keep both computers up to date with current inboxes AS WELL AS what has been deleted on a certain computer. Any one have any input on how I might be able to go about doing this? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks for your time!  

Having your .Mac account check your POP account (which is available via webmail access for your .Mac account preferences) or setting up your POP account to forward all received messages to your .Mac account would solve the problem.
A .Mac type account with Mail is really an IMAP account and behaves in the same way.
You can create/access a .Mac account as a .Mac, IMAP or POP account with Mail and create/access the account as an IMAP or POP account with other email clients on your Mac or on a Windows PC.
I access my .Mac account as a .Mac type account with Mail and as an IMAP account with Outlook on my Windows PC at work and all server stored mailboxes are kept synchronized on both computers without having to do anything special.
This is the benefit of an IMAP account - accessing the same account with an email client on different computers.

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