Using mail app from 2 diff computers to access mail from same email account

I have a mac at home and at work. I would like to receive my email at my mac at work and at home using apple mail. I dont know if it is relevant or not, but my mac at work is on 10.2 and is an older imac with an older mail app obv. And my mac at home is on 10.5. The problem is that once my home computer retrieves the emails from gmail, my work computer wont get those same messages. How do I get both computers to retrieve all of the messages from my gmail inbox? I like the fact that if I get my mail at one computer, I cant get that mail at another computer. What do I do and what are my options?

Doesn't gmail allow you to set up your account as an IMAP account? That would solve the problem.
If gmail doesn't let you configure as an IMAP account, consider getting another email provider. I'm not an AOL fan boy by any means (I actually run my own personal 5-account postfix/dovecot-IMAP email server at home), but they are IMAP, they are free, and Apple Mail's new account wizard (at least on Tiger and later) really streamlines the creation of an AOL/AIM email account. Plus, if you use iChat, you already have the AIM account set up. If not, you have to pay a visit to webmail.aim.com and create an account (no need to download the AIM application that they are pushing)

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Are you confirming your POP account is selected as the sending email account before the message is sent?
And regardless if the email is a new email or is replying to or forwarding an email received by the POP account and cofirming the POP acconut is selected as the sending email account, the message is sent by the Gmail account?
All message sent by the POP account are sent by the Gmail account?
If so, delete the Gmail account from your iPad and test if a message sent with your POP account which will be the only email account available with the iPad's Mail app is recieved from your POP account/address.
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I assume these are POP accounts and all computers are set to remove from Server after downloading.
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Thank you again. I am actually just using a single computer at thsi time but will be setting up a Mac Mini in a day or so.
I actually believe I authorized my Mac Book for both my wife and my iTunes account. Yesterday when I hooked her iPhone up it told me that my computer was not authorized to download an app, i had to authorize this macbook.
So if the Apps from both iTunes account is on my Mac Book and I hook up my iPhone it will allow my to transfer the apps from my computer to my iphone? So lets say I am logged into iTunes account #1 and I try to use an app from iTunes account #2 will I have to do anything special?
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This has been happening more often than not lately on the Mail 8.2 app. It's driving me crazy, and really messing up my business since I have a professional email (using Outlook) and a personal email (Gmail).
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I need my personal and professional messages synced to my iPhone and Mac, or I would just say good riddance to the Mac Mail app.
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The Mail preference dialog opens. Select the Composing tab from the row of icons at the top. From the menu labeled
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If the problem remains, select the Accounts tab in the preference dialog, then select the affected account in the list on the left.
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Hey guys, first forum post so go easy on me pls
The other day I decided to download some apps from my mums itunes account since I didnt have any money to pay for them myself. When it came to syncing/copying the apps from her account, it decided to delete most, if not all the apps from my own account.
I had a read around and have "authorised" both my laptop and her macbook, and the iphone registers this. However, I tried to copy some apps from my account this morning and it seems it wouldnt have been possible without deleting the ones I had copied from her account.
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Thank you again. I am actually just using a single computer at thsi time but will be setting up a Mac Mini in a day or so.
I actually believe I authorized my Mac Book for both my wife and my iTunes account. Yesterday when I hooked her iPhone up it told me that my computer was not authorized to download an app, i had to authorize this macbook.
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