How do I convert yahoo email on iPhone FROM IMAP TO POP?

I have Yahoo Mail Plus. When I first got my iPhone 4, I set it up so my yahoo email was accessible on my phone without my doing anything. I only check the email from two devices: my desktop via the internet, and my iPhone. I'm pretty sure the email set up on my phone is an IMAP protocol, because when I delete an email from one device, it deletes it on the other device.
I actually want to change it so that when I delete an email on my phone, it DOESN'T delete it from the Yahoo server. I think that's the POP protocol. I realize setting it up as POP will require that I delete the emails multiple places. I can live with that. What I don't currently like is that all of the emails I've saved in my Yahoo account, in multiple folders, are now also sitting on my iPhone. It's a risk exposure I'd like to eliminate. My iPhone password is a start, but I'd feel better if I could purge old emails off my iPhone. Right now, if I delete the various emails and folders from my phone, it's my understanding they'll also be gone from my Yahoo internet account. I don't want that.
I've read various posts saying I should delete my Yahoo email account on my iPhone and then set it up as a new account and select POP.
1. Is that the only way to change from IMAP to POP?
2. If I delete Yahoo mail on my iPhone, what will happen to my stored emails on Yahoo? Will they be saved or deleted?
3. Is there another solution?
4. Any other advice?
Thanks for any help. And if I've skewered any terms here, forgive me. Sometimes dealing with this stuff is like learning another language.  Cindy

First off, you are correct in the assumption that emails are sitting on your iPhone. You should, however have the option to set how much to sync, as well as what folders to sync to determine what is visible. The only setting to change that is to set a passcode on the phone.
Also, deleting the emails and folders from the phone will result in them being deleted from the server, this is how IMAP works.
To answer your other quesetions:
1. That would have to be answered by Yahoo, since the server would have to be different. An IMAP server acts differently than POP.
2. Deleting will delete everything everywhere.
3. The only other solution I can think of is as I stated earlier is if there is a setting for days to sync in IMAP. I'm not sure of this since I do not use an IMAP account. I know that Exchange behaves in this way.
4. If this does not work as you want after talking ot Yahoo, then maybe selecting a POP email provider and forwarding the Yahoo mail to that and picking up the POP mail on the iPhone.
I think that Yahoo will give you information that you will need to start your search for answers.

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