Deleting Mail from POP

Can somebody kindly correct or confirm my understanding about deleting mail from iPhone.
I use a .com POP account and use Eudora on my Mac.
When I trash & delete an email from iPhone, this will not delete the mail from the POP account -- correct?
Also, if I used Apple Mail instead of Eudora, would syncing cause Mail app to delete from POP the messages that are trashed & deleted from the iPhone?
In short, am I correct that deleting mail from iPhone has no affect on POP server unless you use and sync to Apple's Mail app?
Thank you!

as long as your setting for deleting mail from the server is set to "never" on the iPhone, you won't have any problems.

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