Synced mail between Macs ......  Once and for all help me understand.

Hi guys,
Ok, I've been a Mac user for over 8 years but I have to admit I've never really understood how to best organise my Mac Mail.
I have a Mac Mini and a Macbook Air and I choose to keep all mail in folders "on my mac". Both the Mini and the Air have matching folders.
I don't tend to store mail in folders in ".Mac"... or .Me (online) as I prefer it stored on my hard drive.
Problem here is that when I store an email in a folder on say the Mini... it obviously doesn't apperar in the matching folder on the Air. They are not synced as they are store on their individual hard drives.
My question...... is there a way to sync these two computers and their mail folders? ... or is the only way to save everything to .Mac on both computers and not "on my mac"?
Isn't there a risk that .Mac could loose all my mail?

I have Mac Pro and MacBook Pro. I keep all mail on both machines by:
1. Mac Pro set to leave mail on server for 7 days. MBP set to never delete from server. That means all mail is always downloaded to both machines. You may prefer/need longer or shorter. Having the MBP set to never delete means that if I am away from base, the Mac Pro will still always get all mail.
2. Out going Mail set on both machines to bcc myself. This means all sent mail gets to both machines whichever machine it was sent from.
3. Mail rules on each machine put any incoming mail from myself into sent folder. This means all mail I send ends up in the sent folders whichever machine it was sent from.
Seems to work fairly well. Maintenance has to done on each machine separately, and you have two copies of sent mail on the machine it was sent from.

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