Synchronize mail between computers

Is there a way to synchronize mail between my main computer and my laptop. So If I read messages on one computer, the other will also appear as if I read it. Both computers are running latest OS. Thanks for any help.

Comcast does not provide an IMAP type account - you can access your Comcast email account as a POP type account only.
Is your old Mac running Tiger? If not, you can't transfer the Mail folder from a Mac running Jaguar or Panther to a Mac running Tiger since the mailbox format used by Tiger Mail is significantly different than the mailbox format used by Jaguar and Panther Mail.
If both Macs are running Tiger, you need to transfer the Mail folder and the Mail.app preference file from the old Mac to the new.
I used the Migration Assistant to transfer everything from a Mac running Tiger to a new Mac with Tiger pre-installed without any problems but the Migration Assistant should have worked regardless.
If both Macs are connected in some fashion, you can use the Import Mailboxes feature with the Mail.app on the new Mac to import all mailboxes from the Mail folder on the old Mac.
This link includes some basic information on the differences between an IMAP and POP type account.
http://www.imap.org/
An IMAP type account is beneficial when accessing the same account with an email client on multiple computers. In addition to the account's Inbox mailbox, you can also store Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk messages on the server with the email client on multiple computers so all account mailboxes/messages stored on the server are kept synchronized with the server by the email client used on each computer. When a received message is marked as read with the email client used on one computer, the message will be marked as read when the account is checked with the email client used on a different computer. You can also create additional server stored mailboxes to sort/store selected messages by category on the server and all messages in any user created server stored messages will be available and kept synchronized with the email client used on each computer.
None of this is available with a POP type account which is primarily designed to be accessed with one computer only.
An Apple .Mac account can be accessed as an IMAP or POP type account but most internet service providers such as Comcast support POP type accounts only.

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Hi everyone,
last holidays, I decided to deleted some mails on my iPhone or iPad... only ! because it took too much room on my phone memory.
But when I came back home, and decided to work on my macbook, I discovered that all my mails were deleted too ?
I realized that all my MAC stuff were synchronized !
Now my question is : how can I do to STOP the synchronization between all my Mac goods ?
You certainly understood : I want to keep everything on my macbook , even if I delete things in my iPhone and iPad.
Answers ? Ideas ?
Thanks to everyone.

You'll need to use an email system that does not sync (so not iCloud, or Gmail, or most of the email systems in existence). Look for a provider who can give you a POP account.

Sync Mail Between Computers

I am running 2 macs. I have one problem...is there any way that I can have my mail sync on both computers without .mac ... It can be quite a pain having to check then delete the mail on one computer, and then come on my other computer and have to delete all the same messages. Again, I would not like to have to subscribe to .mac ... I know it is a great program from mac, but the fees can be a pain, so if there is any way to do this, I would thank you!!!!
Thank You.

Hi.
With .Mac mail, it allows you to run it as a IMAP mail, which stores everything on the mail server.
That is the kind of mail you probably looking for, to "sync" between two or more macs, you basically access your entire mail account, which is on a mail server, via an email program like Mail or Entourage.
So if you do not wish to subscribe to .Mac, then you would have to look for another mail account, that supports IMAP.
Incidently, if you are looking for a free email account, and don't mind accessing it fromt the web, (i.e. web-based mail) then there are a lot for you to choose from: GMail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail
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Hi!
As I am considering switching from Entourage to Mac OSX Mail, I'm pondering this question: is it easy to move the e-mail archive from one machine to the other? In Entourage it all sits in Microsoft User Data/Office 2008 Identities. Where does it all sit in OSX? Info would be appreciated... Thanks!
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Tony,
Haha! Thanks!
Now, since you seem to know this stuff, more help needed...
I created my elaborate mail setup on my MacPro, all tweaked and working (I confess: 14 different IMAP email accounts spread between 3 domains on my server. I just like things a precisely certain way, and emails to land in proper mailboxes).
I was ready to move all this to its proper destination, which is my MacBook Pro laptop - so I copied the contents of Users/Rad/Library/Mail/.. to the same folder on the laptop, rebooted everything, and... to make a story short, that whole setup DID NOT transfer. There is some chaotic structure with some bits and pieces, but definitely not a clean transfer.
Then I tried archiving mailboxes and importing them on the laptop, but in that case none of the actual IMAP account settings transferred to the Mail app.
So - any ideas on how to just move the whole mail setup cleanly from one machine to the other? Or it is not possible, and I will have to manually retype all the account settings again?
Your help graciously appreciated again! I will post this separately on the forum too...
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Is it possible to synchronize mail between all iOS and OS devices?

I am running an iPhone 5 and iPads 3 & 4 with iOS 8.1 plus 2 MacBook Pros, and 3 (4th ordered) Mac minis with OS Yosemite 10.10. I also use an iPhone 4 and iPad 1 with older iOS software but mail is not important on them. I am the only user of these devices (reason = personal convenience).
I have mail accounts with Hotmail, Live, iCloud, Yahoo and Centurylink.
My problem is that because the mail is not synchronized (deleting an email on one device does not delete it from other devices or from the server) I now have up to and over 10,000 accumulated emails on various devices. I don't mind keeping all my old emails IF I could eliminate all the emails I choose to delete from any of the devices.
The result is that email has become unmanageable for me.
I had very high hopes that Apple would fix this with Yosemite and iOS 8.1 but that does not appear to be the case.
I suppose I could work around it by always going to Hotmail, Live, Yahoo, Centurylink etc. on the internet and not using iOS and OS mail but that seems a dumb way to have to do it.
Every time I buy a new iOS or OS device (like the new mini) it compounds the problem with yet another disorganized mail mess.
There is so much spam, phishing, data mining etc. going on that I use the multiple email accounts to pre-filter anticipated email responses. As an example I need a Yahoo account to use Yahoo but I know almost all Yahoo mail is spam so I can ignore it most of the time.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

Thank you for your reply.
I am somewhat new to iOS and OS having grown up with DOS and Windows. I am not familiar with IMAP and iCloud and I am not even sure which types of servers my various emails use.
The problem I would anticipate with iCloud is that (I assume) it would limit my access to data (including mail) on the iCloud to when I happen to be logged onto the internet. I also assume(?) that large files (photos etc.) would require some time to download whenever I wish to access them from whichever device I happen to be using (I hope I am wrong about this).
I have kept my devices to 500gb - 1TB for OS and 32gb - 128gb for iOS but since I have pretty slow WiFi (shared with DirecTV Whole Home and Netflix streaming) it is my impression that iCloud might be quite limited due to data transfer times.
Perhaps a factor would be that I have 2 DSL lines and my main DSL line is connected to two wireless routers (to also provide WiFi in a metal building that blocks WiFi and Cellular signals)
I may be totally wrong in my assumptions regarding iCloud. My mail is not so urgent that I need access to it instantly and I could wait until I had internet access or I can get it on my iPhone. My main concern with iCloud would be my data files (Word, Pages, Excel, Numbers etc.).
On the other hand, if I wanted to keep my 10,000 emails that would take up a lot of iCloud memory and I don't know how to measure how much storage it would take or how to move Hotmail or even iCloud mail to iCloud.
It may take me some time to figure this out.

Does MobileMe sync e-mail messages or only the account settings between computers?

Does MobileMe actually sync e-mail messages between computers or only the account settings?

Here's a scenario: We have an iPhone, an iMac, and a MacBook Plus that we want to sync with MobileMe. So let's say that we check our e-mail using the iMac tomorrow. We save some new messages and delete the rest. Does MobileMe then sync (i.e. save the same messages and delete the rest on the iPhone and the MacBook Plus)? Or do we need to go through the same process with the iPhone and the MacBook Plus as we did on the iMac?
Also, does MobileMe sync addresses, favorites, documents, etc.?
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Yes, MobileMe will sync your address book, Safari bookmarks and documents. However it's a little trickier with the documents as it involves localizing your iDisk. I'm personally not a huge fan of the tech that Apple uses for the iDisk (WebDAV) and I feel there are some better solutions out there but it will get the job done.
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Problem syncing Mail between two computers

I know this is a well worn topic and I've read the posts on syncing mail between two computers. Overall, I've gotten it to work pretty well. Whenever I move from one computer to another, I copy my ~/Library/Mail folder to my thumbdrive and sync it w/ the same folder on my other computer before I fire up Mail on it.
But here's the problem: I rebuilt the "sent" mailbox on one of my computers (let's call it computer A). This apparently gives new message numbers to the messages. Things worked great on computer A after that.
Then I synced the mailbox with my other computer, computer B. On computer B, the change in mailbox numbers apparently was not recognized. Every message in the "sent" folder gave me the message that I needed to go online and download the message. So I rebuilt the "sent" mailbox on computer B. Things then worked great.
Then I synced back with computer A and the same thing happened. Every message in the sent folder gave me the "download from server message."
It seems that I'm in some sort of infinite loop. The rebuild on one computer is not recognized by the other computer. Clearly, there is some file somewhere that contains info that's not being conveyed when I sync the ~/Library/Mail folder.
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That is interesting. To that effect I have thrown together this Applescript:
(CAUTION... do not run this script, experimental only!
set flashDrive to "FLASH"
tell application "System Events" to exists process "Mail.app"
if the result is true then tell application "Mail" to quit
-- copy files to mounted disk
do shell script "rm -r /Volumes/" & flashDrive & "/Mail/"
do shell script "cp -r ~/Library/Mail /Volumes/" & flashDrive & "/"
do shell script "cp ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist /Volumes/" & flashDrive & "/Mail/"
--copy files to userfolder
do shell script "rm -r ~/Library/Mail"
do shell script "cp -r /Volumes/" & flashDrive & "/Mail ~/Library/"
do shell script "cp /Volumes/" & flashDrive & "/Mail/com.apple.mail.plist ~/Library/Preferences/"
Problem is, I don't know how to tell the script which version of mail data is older or newer. If you know of such a way let me know and I'll script it in, otherwise the user is stuck with manually choosing what to copy to where.
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I'm trying to use Firefox to Syncronize data between computers. It was working, but somewhere along the way it has stopped. I now have three computers, of which I'm trying to have two of them synced together. I thought that the issue was account related, so I deleted my original account & had to create a new one (with a different e-mail address - I'd like to change that back if possible). Anyhow, now it seems as if bookmarks are synced OK, but my saved passwords are not. Given that I can't tell what the status is of a sync, it is hard for me to tell where the process is.
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https://philikon.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/how-to-file-a-good-sync-bug/
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For outgoing connections:
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