Importing Mail folders as they are on my computer

how do I do this? when I synced my iPhone with my Mail, it only imported the accounts and not all the folders.

I believe you can make the setting you want by going to Home and then tapping Settings. Tap on Mail and then the name of your email account. Once the settings for the email account appear, towards the bottom should be an Advanced option to tap on. In the Advanced screen should be an option for deleting mail from the server and you can select the option "Never" for example.
If this is not the 100% correct path, I apologize but the option is there.
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