Deleting emails fromiPhone 3GS

I have 3 email accounts linked to my iPhone, but when I try to delete the emails on my phone (from my hotmail account), it automatically retrieves older messages, I now have 365 emails on my iPhone (all of which need to be marked as read). My phone never used to do this and it has only happened since I was prompted to do an upgrade. ny help with advice how to stop this would be gratefully received.

Hi, sorry to be a pain but this is so complicated for me! I have done what you suggested and set up IMAP so hotmail is now Exchange however, I am now unable to access any stored emails in other folders in hotmail. Ie folder listed as 'banking' is showing up on Exchange but the folder is empty as are all the others. Is there a way I can transfer the contents of these folders from hotmail (viewed on laptop0 to Exchange on iPhone. Failing this I would need to go back to previous settings as I need to access these other folders. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks

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