Why don't read/unread statuses get pushed to the iPhone?

[The General]

As I'm sitting at my computer with my iPhone on my desk, I get emails. I read them on my computer, obviously. Then, in order to get the badge off of my Mail app on my iPhone, I have to open it and let it refresh, and sometimes view the email again just to mark it as read.

If I read the email on my iPhone, the read status gets pushed to the cloud then pushed to my computer and my computer's badge goes away nearly instantly.

I'm tired of this crap. When I read my emails on my computer, I want the read statuses to get pushed to the iPhone.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

The read status is is pushed in the follow directions:

iPhone -> Me.com
iPhone -> Mac
Me.com -> Mac
Mac -> Me.com

But it does NOT push read statuses:

Me.com -> iPhone
Mac -> iPhone

This is EXTREMELY irritating. Please go to http://www.apple.com/feedback/mobileme.html and send them a comment. I just sent one.

 

[UngratefulNinja]

Same here. Additionally, when I read an email on my touch, the unread status isn't pushed to my iPhone until I open the iPhone mail app. I sent feedback through the link too, thanks.

 

[michaelb82]

Same problem with email deleted from me.com or mail on my mac, delete the email but won't be deleted from the iphone, very annoying when you are waiting for a reply to an important email and think its come in, when in fact is hasn't

Feedback submitted to Apple.

 

[elfxmilhouse]

same here!
very annoying

my exchange account updates the read status within ~10 seconds

 

[NewGenAdam]

It's so sucky, right.
I just hope 3.0 brings a fix, otherwise I'll join or start a petition.
It's just poor!

 

[garethjs]

I'm a dev running 3.0 GM and its not "fixed". I'm hoping they do something about it as well.

 

[shollingsw3]

Wow, I've never really noticed this before, but now that you mention it, it has been happening for me also. I will definitely submit feedback about this issue.

 

[anjinha]

I've contacted apple support about this and apparently this is "normal" behavior.

 

[fishkorp]

This is one of the reasons I stopped using my me.com email address. I had ALL my mail forwarded to it before, but now I don't. I can get true push syncing of calendars and contacts with Google Sync, so I don't even need those any more. I'm having a hard time justifying the cost to renew when my subscription is up. Find My iPhone and iDisk alone aren't worth the price. So maybe they'll "fix" it eventually.