IPhone 5 mail set up as IMAP - deletes mail from ISP server

I have had my iPhone 5 for 3 months. I set up one of my email accounts with my ISP (Charter) as IMAP and the phone is behaving as expected. I have it set to show 50 recent messages which is fine; I assumed that I could always login to my Charter account if I was away from home and needed something older. Outlook on my PC is behaving as expected and I can open unopened email from a long time ago. But I just found that login to my Charter account through a browser, there are only about 100 messages in my inbox, and there is nothing in my sent folder since the day before I got my iPhone.
I would like for nothing to get deleted from Charter's server unless I delete it using Outlook on my PC or accessing my Charter account through a browser.
Is there any way to do this?

The folders that I see on the phone don't match up to the folders I have set up in Outlook. I much prefer to handle the mail there. I just want to be able to see the mail on the phone and not have the phone be the boss of the server. I now understand that is really not possible. I will try to remember to increase the number of messages retained on the phone before I travel. (concerned that they will start being deleted from the server before I download them to the PC via Outlook.)
Thanks for your replies.

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