Messages Automaticlly Deleted From Inboxes

I have 2 Macs (running OS10.9.5), 2 iPads & 2 iPhones 4S (running iOS8). I am using Apple Mail as my email client. If I delete an email message from the Inbox on one of my Macs or devices, that message is also deleted from the Inbox on all of the other Macs/devices as well. I assume that this is a syncing issue among the Macs/devices. Although probably unrelated, this problem started suddenly after I moved to a different town & subsequently changed ISP. The same problem occurs whether I use the ISP's server or the Gmail server.
This has me baffled. I would appreciate any suggestions that might help to resolve this issue. Thank you kindly!
Kit

Hello kitjv,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
What you are experiencing here is that your new ISP's email has an IMAP server, so this is expected behavior. To learn more about email account types see below.
IMAP accounts
With an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) account, incoming and outgoing messages are stored on a mail server until you delete them. When you connect to the mail server, all your mailboxes are synced so that the messages on your Mac are the same as those on the server. You can read and manage messages from any device that you use to access your account, and download messages or attachments to work with when you’re not connected to the Internet.
Microsoft Exchange accounts
An Microsoft Exchange account is similar to an IMAP account, with respect to messages being stored on a mail server and accessible from multiple computers and locations. You can use flags in an Exchange account with some limitations.
For an Exchange account to be set up in Mail, the Exchange server must support Exchange Web Services (EWS). To learn more about Exchange Server, contact your server administrator.
POP accounts
With a Post Office Protocol (POP) account, incoming messages are stored on a mail server and are downloaded to your Mac when you access your account. The messages remain on the server until they’re deleted from the server.
About account types
Take care,
Alex H.

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I have seen several related discussions about this kind of problem, but they all seem to have been solved or glossed over with setting up the IMAP interaction so that messages are deleted from the server in addition to the device or with a "Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For" fix that doesn't work for me. I like being able to save all of my email history on servers (I'm often surprised by how many years back I have to search to find a piece of information I need), but I can no longer stand losing so much of my very limited local space to really old mail.
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Under my Gmail Inbox in Mail, I have deleted every message from before 2013. The mail from 2013 is all that I want stored on my MacBook Air.
Ultimately, I think this has something to do with the Archive (seen in the sidebar above, as well). Even when I've deleted everything from before 2013 in my Inbox, AND emptied the entire contents of Trash manually, the Archive still contains all of the mail from the server (yes, this account was started in 2011, but I have others that go back much further).
The cherry on top is that when I delete the same messages from the Archive as I've deleted from the Inbox, Mail immediately begins re-downloading all of those messages. Last time I tried this my laptop had to download 23000 messages, but here's a screenshot of proof with a smaller sample:
In case my Gmail server settings are useful to consider, here they are:
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• There's a lot that I don't know about exactly how IMAP communication occurs between a device and a server. For my sake and the sake of anyone else who needs this kind of help, please clarify terms like "flags" and "archive" (since Gmail and Mail both use the term and I don't know think they mean exactly the same thing) if/when you use them.
• If anyone does think that there's some sort of "Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For" solution to this, you should know that no matter what I have selected in Mail's sidebar (at no matter what level of indentation), the options available under that menu item are always grayed-out.
• I want to keep using Mail. There's a lot that I like about it and I don't want to switch to Thunderbird or something else (remember, I need to save as much local space as I can).
• I just upgraded to 10.9.0 Mavericks, but this problem has existed for me and behaved essentially just like this as long as I can remember. In fact, I think I recall the problem still existing before there was an Archive in the sidebar at all.

UPDATE
I still have the problem, but when I checked on this post to see if anyone had commented and I simply hadn't received an e-mail, I noticed that all but the last of the images I included have stopped displaying (I had friends check, too). Most of them were just visual examples of what I was explaining in hopes of giving context and all available info that I may not have personally viewed as relevant, but the first one, about my account's Mailbox Behaviors settings sure is important. These are the settings I have:
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• Store deleted messages on the server — Grayed-out and Check
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