IPhone and .mac mail sync

I had to do a restore on my phone. I used to be able to have the phone NOT sync my message status and deleted messages update my .mac account. Now that I have done the restore. When I delete one on my iPhone it deletes right away on the Mac mail program. I don't remember what I did or didn't do so it would work that way before the restore.
Could someone help me with this please?
Thanks,
G B III

You're welcome.
With your iPhone connected, do you have your .Mac or MobileMe account selected below email accounts under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences for the email account settings to be transferred to your iPhone via the iTunes sync process?
If so, your .Mac or MobileMe account settings from the Mail.app on your Mac were transferred to your iPhone via the iTunes sync process, which created the account as an IMAP account with the iPhone's mail client.
If yes and you want to access your .Mac or MobileMe account as a POP account with the iPhone's mail client, you need to deselect this below email accounts under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences. Follow this by deleting the account with the iPhone's mail client and manually recreate the account as a POP account. You need to select "Other" when creating the account. After entering what is required on the first screen, on the next screen you will select POP as the account type entering the required settings to access the account as a POP account with the iPhone's mail client.
After the account is recreated with the iPhone's mail client, be sure to check the account settings for removing messages from the server when downloaded. You want to select Never for removing messages from the server when downloaded by the iPhone's mail client, or any new messages received and downloaded by the iPhone's mail client will be removed from the server when downloaded and the new messages received by the iPhone's mail client will not be available when checking the account with the Mail.app on your Mac.
IMO, it is better to access the account as an IMAP account with both.

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