Keep Exchange Messages on Server after Mail Downloads Them

First, I'm still not good with computer/Mac language, so I apologize if the following is confusing and for the vocabulary mistakes I'm sure I'm making!
I set up Mail.app to work with my work's Exchange email just a few weeks ago, and everything seems to work fine except for one thing - Mail.app "steals" all of my work messages from the server.
When I'm at work, I use Outlook to manage my work mail. When I'm on my laptop at home, I use Mail.app for my work mail. When I'm not at work or at home, I just log into my work email through a website (which, I think, is the main server where all the work emails are stored). Until I brought Mail.app into the mix, Outlook would download copies of these emails fro the server, but the emails would stay on the server unless I actually logged into the mail website/server and deleted them. At that point, they'd also automatically delete from Outlook. This was perfect, as I could access work email from work and from the website when I wasn't at work.
Once I started using Mail.app at home, I noticed that when I came to work the next morning, all of my emails were gone from Outlook. I logged into the work email website/server, and noticed that all of the messages were also gone from the server. My guess is that when Mail.app downloads messages from the server, it downloads the actual message and doesn't keep one on the server. Then, Outlook automatically syncs with the server, which shows all of the messages as being deleted.
If that made any sense, is there any way to tinker with the Mail.app settings to make it so that it only downloads copies of messages on my work server? I don't want it to remove the message from the server; that way, I can still access my work email from work through Outlook and from other places, through the website/server.
Thank you so much for any advice!

Not putting any messages in the trash (unless I want to delete them) - they're just disappearing from the server and my work Outlook. I deleted the account in Mail and re-added it, and the same thing happened with the messages that came to my work email server in the meantime.
Would it help (or even be possible) to set up the account as a POP or Exchange 2007 account in Mail.app? It seems like when I enter in the email address, Mail sets it up as an "Exchange IMAP" account automatically. If I press the Option button while doing that, I noticed I can then choose to add it as a POP or Exchange 2007 account. I wonder if that would help?

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