POP Servers and deleting messages

I created an account to retrieve my messages from my ISP thru POP, but when I delete them thru Mail, they remain on the server. Is there a setting that I'm missing to keep it synchronized? Thanks.

Hello William.
You can't synchronize mailboxes on the server with a POP type account but you can select when to delete messages from the server when downloaded by the Mail.app.
Go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts and under the Advanced tab for the account preferences, select "Remove copy from server after retrieving a message:" and your choices below are:
Right Away
After one day
After one week
After one month
When moved from Inbox
I have it set to Right Away for my POP type accounts.
There is also a "Remove now" button which removes all available messages from the server.

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