"Sync" Mac Mail on 2 Macs?

Is there any way to ONLY display emails in the Mac Mail inbox which are CURRENTLY on the server?
I am desperately trying to convert from MS Entourage to Mac Mail on my iMac at the office and another iMac at home. I use the same email account for both work and personal activites, and I generally process the work emails on the office iMac but leave my personal emails until I get home on my personal iMac.
Entourage can be config'ed so that the emails stay on the server until you delete them from your message window. Also, when you have the email set up to "allow online access", then the only emails listed are those currently still on the server. Any other emails that were downloaded/deleted previously by EITHER computer are omitted as the list updates on BOTH computers. This means that when I loaded a bunch of emails yesterday on both of my computers (work and office) and then process a few of yesterday's emails while I'm at the office TODAY, when I get home and 'reload' the messages on the server today, only the unprocessed emails (ie, emails still on the server) are displayed, while the ones I processed/deleted earlier today at the office are then omitted from the listing I get when I re-get mail on my home computer.
Mac Mail seems to work differently, however, and so after I process emails at work and delete them from my inbox, they still stay in the inbox in my computer at home, which obviously can be very confusing/cumbersome when trying to figure out which emails I've already processed vs. which need to be deleted from the inbox. Since I deal with dozens of emails each day, it's hard to manually determine which emails I processed at work earlier today so that I can delete them AGAIN on my home computer.
And so (again) the bottom line question is this:
Is there any way to ONLY have the emails listed in the Mac Mail inbox which have not yet been deleted from the server?
Thanks so much for any suggestions (which I hope do not recommend iCloud or any other remote services).
-Phil.

On the PoweBook, I can't figure out how to add these accounts
to the Sent folder like in 10.3.9.
You can't do so manually. All account mailboxes under In, Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk in the mailboxes drawer are (or should be) created automatically by Mail when the function is used by the account.
Have you sent messages with all accounts on the PB?
The synchronize function is for a .Mac or IMAP type account only. This does not apply to POP type accounts since incoming messages are downloaded from the server only. A POP account's Inbox mailbox in Mail or with any email client cannot be synchronized with the server.
I access a .Mac type account, two IMAP type accounts along with two POP type accounts with Tiger Mail. Under Mailbox via the menu bar, I have a "Synchronize All Accounts" and a "Synchronize" with an available selection for my .Mac type account or my two IMAP type accounts only since the synchronize function is not available for and can't be used with a POP type account.

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