IMAP & POP E-Mail on two devices?

I have a quick question, mostly for those who understand the inner-workings of the two systems fairly well. I am using IMAP on my laptop to connect with my personal E-mail account. I am also using it on my iPhone, but you can't sync subfolders in IMAP on the iPhone without navigating to each individual folder.
If I am still using IMAP from my Mail.app, and I have server-side rules set up on my E-Mail server to route mail to the appropriate folders, when I use POP, will I only get the E-mails that are remaining in the Inbox, or everything that has arrived, regardless of what folders it has been placed in using the server rules?
Part of my problem is I have a ton of mail that is not critical to be read constantly. However, some I do want to read on my iPhone when I am remote. So I was hoping to be able to use server rules to filter E-Mail to the appropriate folder, and use POP on the iPhone (with the setting set to never delete from the server) to get everything else.
Will this work, or am I going to still get everything that has been sent, regardless of the IMAP rules on the server?
Thanks,
Mike

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Hi Csound1, thanks. The email host is 1and1.co.uk, however, i am going to fess up and make myself look like a plonker now -
the email account in question was set up in Outlook as POP - stupid, stupid, stupid me, wasted an afternoon on this! I have now changed the Outlook account to IMAP and Mail.app works perfectly - and looks much nicer than Outlook did. Im in the middle of converting from Windows to a Mac, and still finding my way around the Mac
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