Keeping email local

Hi,
I recently had an issue where my ISP has managed to delete all the email from my inbox.
I thought I had mail.app set up to copy all my email from my isp inbox to the local machine. However it appears that not only has my email gone from my isp, it has also gone from mail.app.
What is the best practice for getting mail.app to keep a local copy of my email?
how do i stop mail.app deleting emails even when they have gone from the isp?
thanks in advance

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