E-mail stays on iPhone

Hi everyone,
I have my iPhone sync to my personal email account at my ISP, so that during the day I can keep tabs on personal mail I'm receiving. When I get home each night, I fire up my PC and load up MS Outlook and download my mail which removes it from the server at my ISP.
Strange thing is, I would expect the next time my iPhone fetches mail from my ISP that it would remove the messages I downloaded to my home PC (my WM6 PDA did this) but it seems my iPhone is keeping my personal mail.
Question is, why is this happening and is this by design?
Hoping someone can help please.
Thanks,
Pete

Hi Daiya,
I'm not sure you've got what I'm saying.
I have an ISP-based email account that is fetch only and it's a POP account.
I normally use Outlook on my home computer to connect to this account and download messages from my ISP, at which point these messages are now on my computer and not on my ISP's server.
As I only do the above when I get home from work at night, during the day I have my iPhone setup to access that account (so I can keep tabs on my personal mail) and download the messages to my phone (leaving the messages on my server for when I get home at night - these are all settings you can configure).
Now, when I had my WM6 PDA, it did this perfectly during the day, kept the messages on my PDA and on the server (and yes, if I deleted a message on my PDA, it deleted it from the server, and my iPhone does that too). And when I got home at night, downloaded my mail to my Outlook, the next time my PDA fetched mail, it cleared my PDA inbox because obviously the mail was no longer on the server.
So, the problem is, my iPhone seems to ignore this last bit. I get home, download my mail to Outlook which clears the mail off the server, yet when my iPhone fetches mail after that, it doesn't remove the messages that are no longer on the server.
Now you say POP accounts don't support that, but I have to disagree because my WM6 device did exactly that and with ease.
So my question is, am I just missing a setting somewhere on my iPhone or is this a design flaw (let's face it, why would the phone keep mail that's no longer on the server - strange).
I hope I've explained myself. It seems from Texarado who has also replied that this may be by design, which leads me to think that to remove these old mails, I have to do it manually.
Anyway, if there's any further advice on this, I'd appreciate it. I have logged a bug report to Apple (as I do feel this is not the correct behaviour, or at least should be configurable).
Cheers,
Pete

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