Unable to sync emails between iPhone 5s and I mac

During some messing about with settings, possibly even chain, I've been unable to sync my emails from my mac accounts and cox accounts between my I mac and my IPhone 5s. Help?

Hi connietanms,
Here is an article that will help you back up your iCal data:
How to back up iCal calendar data
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2966
I would recommend that you back up your iPhone as well:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
Here is one more article that will help you finalize this procedure and will give you the best steps to importing your iCal events into iCloud so they can be synced to both of your devices:
iCloud: Manually importing data from Calendar or iCal to iCloud Calendar
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4967
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Have a good one!
-Braden

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