How do I retain a copy of deleted email on server using IMAP?

I like using an IMAP connection for Iphone email because it gives me access to personal folders created in my Yahoo mail account. On my Iphone 4S, I was able to delete an email without causing it to be deleted in Outlook on my desktop computer. I have not been able to duplicate this using the Iphone 5 and don't know whether I have a setting issue on the Iphone, my desktop, or in my Yahoo Mail account. I have searched all three and cannot find an option that specifically addresses this.
I am accessing Yahoo mail on my desktop through a POP account. On the Iphone, I have selected the NEVER advanced option for removing deleted messages.
If anyone can help me with this, I would be most appreciative.

Check your mail preferences. The example below is from the mail app that comes with mac. In my case I'm using yahoo mail which is a POP3 account. POP stands for post office protocol which is the set of rules used by a POP mail account to transfer mail. You can learn more about it here if interested. If the box below is checked, all the mail will be downloaded to your computer when you check your mail using the built in mail app and removed from the mail server. Here is another page to help you set up your hotmail account for use the the mac mail application. Hope this clears things up.

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It seems that others have been hit with this issue.
I note the issue of the old emails being downloaded because the server after the upgrade thought that it was a new device.
I resolved this by deleting the old emails from the phone. (ios7.1) which did not delete from server even though as you stated imap configuration is designed to do this.
The reason that it did not delete from the server is that I set my email account on the iphone 5 to never delete from server.
Which is what I want as I wanted to keep the old emails on my server for reference ( I even pay extra to my hosting company for the extra storage of emails ) and not have thousands of emails on my iphone.
However when I upgraded to ios7.2 even though no changes to email acounts were made by me it deleted the emails from my imac and also from my server.
It seems that somehow the phone was being signed into the server as new device orginally when it was upgraded to ios 7.1 and even though I deleted the the thousands of emails from the phone it did not delete from the server as I had set the account on the phone as never delete from server.
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The setting chosen to not delete emails on server after upgrade to ios7.2 is still ticked but seems to ignore it.
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I have invested some £10,000 on apple products and this is how they repay me.
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I will just have to keep all my emails on my iphone until I change my phone.

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