Keeping old emails in my inbox

I just looked in my inbox for an old email and it was gone! I did find it on spotlight but is there anyway I can just keep my old emails in the inbox after I've read them? I have looked through this forum but I can't seem to find my answer. I did find that someone had 6,000 emails in her box, but I don't know how to set my Mail up that way.
I have AOL and hotmail mailboxes.
help please!
ibook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

This is an AOL issue, not a Mail issue. Contrary to what others have said here, there is no setting in Mail that could have a bearing on this. It’s not that the messages disappear from Mail. It’s that they disappear from the server because AOL (not Mail) removes them from there. Since the account is IMAP, messages disappear from Mail as a result of Mail synchronizing with the server.
AOL automatically purges your mail from the server after some time. There is nothing you can do about it other than maybe specifying a greater number of days somewhere in AOL’s (not Mail) settings and moving/copying your messages somewhere else to avoid losing them. You can create custom local “On My Mac” mailboxes in Mail, for example, and move/copy your mail there manually or set up rules to do it automatically.
Also, AOL doesn’t let mail clients create or manage mailboxes at the root level of the account directory on the server, which means you should turn Store messages on the server OFF for all the mailboxes in Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors, so that those mailboxes are stored locally instead.
You may also want to read the following article. It’s somewhat outdated, but still useful to understand how AOL’s IMAP access works:
Accessing the AOL Mail System using IMAP - An Unofficial Guide

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