Sync a POP Mail account with iCloud

I'm trying to resolve a problem with my wife's email. She's using OSX 10.7.5 with Mail 5.3. She has an iCloud account, but most of her email is using a POP account. Since she also has an iPhone and an iPad, I wanted to get the email on all 3 devices to basically be in sync. I've had her POP email forwarded to her iCloud account, so her incoming mail is fine. But when she replies to an email that comes in on her POP account, even though its been forwarded to the iCloud address, Mail uses her POP account address to reply from. As a result, any sent mail sent this way doesn't get synced to iCloud.
Mail doesn't seem to allow you to specify the reply from account, although you can specify which account to send new messages from. I can keep these synced by manually uploading the email in her Sent Mail folder for her POP account, but that's a bit of a hassle. Is there a setting I may be missing, or is there a rule or some folder action that could automate this? I've been able to create a Smart Folder for any email sent from this POP account, but that doesn't get them uploaded to the Cloud server. And I haven't been able to create a rule to accomplish this either. So any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

If you want to set up a separate email account you will have to create a new iCloud account, which means you will have to create a new Apple ID (for which you will need another non-Apple email address). You can then sign into it in System Preferences>Mail, Contacts and Calendars.
Or you can add up to three 'email aliases' on you existing account - these are additional addresses (not accounts) which deliver into the same inbox as the main account. (In fact it's a good idea to give out alias addresses, rather than the main address, because if they attract spam you can easily change them.) (New aliases can only be @icloud.com ones; @me.com addresses cannot now be created.)
You should be aware before you start that once you've created an alias you cannot turn that address into a full iCloud account, move it to another account, or reactivate it if you delete it.
More information on aliases here:
http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mm6b1a490a

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