IPad Mail account thousands of emails on server

I added a Mail account to my iPad Air. This account on my iMac currently has about 25 emails in the inbox. But on the iPad, it added all emails on the server, more than 2,000. It made me purge about 1,400 of these old emails on the server webmail. But how can I have just the same emails in the inbox as on the iMac? I don't see anything in the Mail, Contacts, Calendars setting in the account's Advanced settings that would enable what I want.
What is especially perplexing is I have two other Mail accounts on the iPad and they DO mirror the Mail accts. on the iMac with about 20 messages in the inboxes and DON'T download all the other mail in these accts. that are on the server.

Having an e-mail sit in the trash can is not what I call a safe place to keep it ... :-) ... I would have absolutely no expectation of finding that e-mail there at some time in the future.
We can look at this from another perspective. At some future date ... you post something like, "My e-mails have disappeared and I don't know why!!" Then someone asks you where those e-mails were at, and you tell them 'in the Trash Can!' WELL ... after you say that, you have to wait a while before getting a response from them, because they fell out of the chair from laughing so hard! ... :-) ... no, "storing e-mails" in the TRASH CAN is not a viable option.

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here is a link to see my settings on the iPad if that helps http://yfrog.com/7gadvancedbjx
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Edit - I read what you provided wrong. I mistakenly saw unread as read on your iPad.
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