How to stop downloading 10,000 old emails

I've just got a new iPhone 3G today, and have managed to start receiving emails from a POP account on it (although I can't yet send any; another question...)
The phone has found the 'loads of emails' on this account, and is now downloading them in batches, going back in time, each time it fetches mail. Following another suggestion on here that worked for someone else, I created a new archive folder for these emails on my Mac, and removed them from the Inbox into here so that the Inbox is now empty, but still they come.
I'm sure that there's something really stupid I'm doing, so would appreciate it being pointed out ever so gently...
With thanks.

Allan,
Thanks for your reply, and for putting me right on the other 'solution'.
At the moment, the Mail.app doesn't remove messages from the server at all, it seems (I don't think I've ever looked at this before). Would you recommend that I remove them all, then, and have it set to remove them after retrieval? I have also been accessing them via webmail sometimes, also, which I suppose I won't now be able to do, although perhaps I don't now need to, thanks to the iPhone.
Not that I fully understand such things (obviously) but having looked at some other Q&As, it would seem that an IMAP set-up would be better than the POP one I have; should I see if this is possible?
Thanks again, and with best wishes,
Jeremy

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