Iphone deletes email by itself

I have an iphone 3G and access my imap email account. All has been fine until this morning when all of a sudden the iphone deleted all emails that have been read on either the phone or the mac. They remain however on the mac in the email account inbox shown as being read.
Cannot find any setting anywhere on the (phone) email account settings relating to this so would appreciate any ideas on what is going on and how to solve (revert) it.

Thanks KiltedTim but no, they are fresh messages. Just received and read then, wham, gone and by gone i mean, gone, no trace of them. Not in trash or deleted

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