10.9.5 IMAP running amok: deleting emails

Hello all,
I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro (10.9.5) to replace my "vintage" 2008 17" silver MBP (10.6.8) due to the old computer's inability to run this year's Turbo Tax. The Mac Mail app that came with the computer ("Mail" v 7.3 (1878.6) seems to have configured itself when it came to the incoming and outgoing server names for Time-Warner, our ISP. The new computer's email is also IMAP instead of POP. The other devices still in use on our network (one 2009 white MacBook and an iPhone 5s) are still using POP.
The problem: It appears that the new IMAP mail app on the new MacBook is deleting emails off the Time-Warner server. One test message sent to myself appeared for just a flash, a split second) in Mac mail's Inbox. It was too fast to read, and was also deleted from the server. Other test emails have remained in the Mac mail Inbox for minutes or hours before being auto-deleted from both my Mac and the Time-Warner server. There are apparently no settings on the Time-Warner webmail site to control the frequency at which messages are deleted from the server so it seems to me the Mail app is doing it.
I could just change the names of the servers in the new MacBook back to the old POP names, but in that dialog box it says "Account type: IMAP" which I cannot change. Has anyone experienced such a problem?
Thank you in advance,
On Duty Dad

Linc,
Thanks for the reply. I did seem to stumble upon the solution (that is, everything is working for now but time will still have to tell). I changed my new MacBook's account to a POP one. The fault apparently lay in the combination of POP and IMAP accounts linked to the same email address.
Best,
ODD

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