Mail sees old IMAP

I moved all my Inbox mail via my ISP web based interface to one Inbox and when I open Mail on my Mac I see the old mail in the other Inboxes.
I've waited about two hours to see if it would "refresh" but it is still there.
Is there some setting where I have accidentally downloaded all of this to my hard drive even though I am accessing via IMAP?
Anyone know what I am missing here?
TIA

Unfortunately this particular email account is with a provider who offers limited storage space.
It looks like I will need to set up a rule that moves email from the IMAP inbox to a local folder after one week. But aren't rules only applied to incoming messages? Will I need to apply this rule manually from time to time?
What about email in the sent folder? I assume I will need to move them to a local folder as well or I will eventually fill my limited storage space. Again, if rules are only applied to incoming messages, how will this work?
This part of IMAP seems like a kludge. It doesn't seem suited to people who would like to keep local copies of all email. My experience in business has taught me never to delete an email because you never know when you may need to reference it. It's also taught me that you can never rely on a server 100% and you should always have local copies.
I need to decide if all of this is worth it just to prevent having to waste time every day opening email on my iPhone just to mark it read.

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