How do I download Mail to two Macs from server?

Lion seems peculiar about this: if I check my (imap att.net) email from my Macbook, the messages load just fine. When I go to my iMac and check email, the messages that have already downloaded to my Macbook aren't offered by the server anymore--they don't download--AND, even stranger, my inbox is mostly empty because messages don't seem to stay locally saved (i.e., on my Mac drive). That means there isn't an archive of all my emails on both my macs for me to search when I need to; whichever Mac I happen to check email on first ends up having more messages. To find an old email, I have to search BOTH Macs, instead of like in Snow Leopard when each Mac would download the same group of new messages off my ISP's server.
Is this making sense? Basically, it seems that Lion only downloads messages from an email server once and then deletes the original from off the server, so my second Mac can't also download a matching set of incoming emails as well. How do I adjust my settings so that Mac doesn't delete new messages from the server, so I can also download the same messages to my second Mac as well?

Are you sure your mail account is IMAP? This sounds more like the behavior with a POP account than an IMAP account. With IMAP, messages are never downloaded; they are always on the server (unless manually copied) and just marked as being read. Please confirm your type of account and post back.
Regards.

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