Synching emails with a POP account

I am able to receive email on the iPhone, but only if I have not opened it on my computer email. I selected (in iTunes) to sync with the correct email address, but those messages that I already opened do not sync over to the iPhone.
How do I move over all messages in my in-box so both computer and iPhone inbox are synced?

First, to clarify...email messages themselves *do not* sync through iTunes...only the email *account settings* sync. This only needs to be done the first time and then can be unchecked. Email messages are fetched by the phone just as they are from your computer - they don't sync through iTunes.
What's happening is that your computer is pulling the message off the server when you check it there, which makes it unavailable for the iPhone to access...which is in inherent problem with a POP account.
If you'd like to have an exact match between your emai on your computer and iPhone, you should look into an IMAP account. With IMAP, whatever happens on one device, happens on the others...in other words, if you read an email on your iPhone and leave it in your inbox, when you access that account on your computer, the message will be sitting in the inbox, marked as read. If you delete a message from your computer, it will be deleted from the account on the iPhone as well. Unfortunately, this behavior can't be duplicated with a POP account.
Hope that helps.
-SB

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Seemed like I could have my optonline emails forwarded to a Gmail account and just set up the Mac's mail to use my optonline account, while the iPad and iPhone used my Gmail account. That worked, except for one issue - when I sent mail from the iPad or iPhone it would use my Gmail address and then people who used "reply" would have their replies sent back to my Gmail account. I wanted to continue to use my optonline address since I have had this address for many, many years. I saw that Gmail allows you to "send using a different from address", however because optonline is a POP account, they do not support the settings in Gmail and therefore I cannot get my optonline address to be verified by Gmail, meaning my emails continued to be sent from my Gmail address on my iPhone.
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@ Tokyodj
Thanks very much for posting this. I was having slightly different issues than the people above - only one of my two POP accounts was being constantly picked up, and I had hundreds of versions of each email... strangely, even after I went to the (Yahoo) account and deleted all the emails out of there. Your solution worked perfectly.
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