IMAP Mail Storage

Bare with me as I'm new to both iPhone and IMAP email. When using IMAP the emails are stored on the server to enable syncing between all email accounts you may use, but are those emails also stored on your iPhone? The reason I ask is that if I have an email account that' say 500mb in total then that takes up quite a lot of valuable space on the iPhone.

One thing that might help.
The emails you see on the iphone are cached on the iphone no matter if you are using a pop or imap account.
They are not stored.
When the iphone looks like it is downloading an email, it is actually downloading the header.
Then when you view the email, it goes back out to the server and downloads the rest of the email.
You will notice this if you have several large emails and you go to read them, the wheel will start spinning when you go to view the email.
This is the iphone going back out to the server to get the body of the email.
Hope this helps.

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