Email account on Windows 8 Laptop to iPhone & iPad help needed

Hello all,
I have a Windows 8 laptop with an Eastlink (pop) email account using Outlook 2010 as my email software. I have an iPhone 4s and an iPad mini. In the past on a older laptop with Outlook 2003, and prior to ios7, when I checked my email on my phone, I could see the messages and delete, read etc. Then when I checked my email later on using my laptop, the messages on my phone would disappear and move to my laptop email. This is no longer the case. I have configured my Eastlink mail on the iPad and iPhone as imap and when I check my email, I can see the Eastlink email messages but they stay there and do not ever show up in my Outlook 2010 account on my laptop. I need to figure out the settings to change to get this working the way it used to. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
Leslie Harnish
Windows 8 laptop, iPhone 4s, iPad Mini user

I think I'm understanding but correct me if I'm not getting it. My laptop is a POP account so when I check mail, it is removed from the Eastlink mail server and the messages end up in my Outlook 2010 software on the laptop - this setting has been in place long before I got an iPhone. It is my "master account" for lack of a better word.
Then, when I got my iPhone, I was able to check my email through the settings for IMAP. If I'm understanding correctly, what I see on my phone is a copy of what is still sitting on the Eastlink server and the original stays on the Eastlink server until I physically download it to the POP account. I don't want all of my mail on the Eastlink server all the time, I'd like to clear it off of there and have it on my laptop. I have a large archive of messages in my Outlook software, some going back to 2008 which I need to keep as they pertain to things I can't delete. Am I missing something by thinking that if I had my laptop email set as IMAP all along, even when using the laptop, I would have been leaving all those messages on the Eastlink server and that would have had me over my quota pretty quickly?
When I first got the phone, my laptop settings were never changed to IMAP yet when I checked the mail on my phone, I could see the messages, then when I got home to my laptop and downloaded my email, they magically disappeared from my phone automatically because they were no longer on the Eastlink server but were now on the laptop. This stopped after one of the upgrades that eventually ended up being IOS7. I swear it used to work that way. I've gone to wiki and read about IMAP and POP but I must be missing some basic understanding.
Thanks in advance and thanks for your patience with me as I try to figure this out.

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