Trying to sync Mail accounts

I just signed up for .mac membership with the hopes that I can synchronize my email messages on my Mac desktop and Mac laptop. Both systems have the same OS X 10.4.8 and are configured to use my work address which is a pop account with Mac mail.
When I did the sync on both computers, it did not synchronize my email messages. I gather that I need further instruction on this as it isn't as easy as I originally thought.
Can you one advise me? Thanks.

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
This relates not to iSync, but to .Mac Sync, which is a different technology altogether. A forum for .Mac Sync users is located here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=957
The underlying issue here involves your expectation that messages will be synchronized, and that's simply not the case. .Mac Sync synchronizes mail structures - not content.
In order to 'synchronize' mail messages, you must use IMAP rather than POP3 mailboxes. Mail is effectively synchronized because it is stored on the mail server your clients access, and not on the clients themselves. As each client accesses an account, it effectively looks through the IMAP 'window' at the contents of your mailbox on that server. Any action you take with regard to that account is reflected everywhere, because your action operates on server—not client—data.
Your .Mac account can easily be identified as an IMAP account, as can many others from such providers as AOL or Yahoo. Google's Gmail does not provide for an IMAP option.
To learn more about IMAP, you can browse this forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=753

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