Syncing Gmail and Mail (iOS and Mac OSX

I receive Gmail through Mail on my iPad, iMac. and MacBook Pro. Opening an email on one device and discarding it has no effect on other devices. The mail will appear there also and wait for me to review and discard all over again. This stopped being fun on the iPad a few thousand emails ago, since there is no gang-delete function. (What was Apple thinking?)
Fortunately, I just learned of the Move button workaround for mass mail extinction. But the underlying problem remains. I'd like Mail to understand if I have already tossed an email downloaded from Gmail onto another Apple device. I want to stay in Mail for all my email management and avoid processing any mail on Google.
My Gmail accounts are set to iMAP, incidentally (the appropriate choice, according to Google, for allowing this kind of syncing).
Is there some setting in Gmail I need to tweak? Or do Google and Apple actually exist in separate and mutually repellant universes?
TIA
Richard Hurley
Grass Valley MultiMedia

Hi Richard,
If you are having issues deleting emails from a Gmail account in Mail on your iOS devices, you may find the following article helpful:
iOS: Understanding Gmail Archive
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4207
Regards,
- Brenden

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