You can set imap to only sync specific folders, so you can have just your personal email on one machine and work on another if you want. My work email is (was,

You can set imap to only sync specific folders, so you can have just your personal email on one machine and work on another if you want. My work email is (was, internship) reasonably quite so it didn't bother me. If it would become annoying i'd just set it to manual sync on my phone.