Saving emails to a folder

On my mac I have folders that I can save emails to, on my iphone I don't. Is there some way to create a folder on the iphone to save mail to (example - work/personal)? On the bottom of the screen you have the option to move to a new mailbox, I just want a folder somewhere to be able to save some emails on the phone without having to leave them in the inbox. Is that possible?
How do people organize emails on the iphone? I do have 2 email accounts that the iphone is using, work and home. Is the whole "move" feature just meant to move email from one account to another?

A POP account is designed to be accessed with a single email client only. The iPhone's Mail client is designed to compliment the email client used on your computer to access the account - not a replacement for the email client used on your computer. For example, the iPhone's Mail client does not include a spam filter, or the ability to create rules, etc. Far from a full featured email client available on your computer.
An IMAP account is designed to be access with an email client on multiple computers or devices keeping all server stored mailboxes with each email client used to access the account synchronized with the server automatically. And the ability to create additional server stored mailboxes. Doing so will make the newly created server stored mailbox available with all email clients used to access the account - and any messages transferred to this mailbox with one email client will be available with all other email clients used to access the account.
None of this is available with a POP account.
You can access a Gmail account as an IMAP account with the email client on your computer, as well as with the iPhone's Mail client, Gmail has a good spam filter at the incoming mail server, plenty of server storage space available for the account, and is free.

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