Setting up iPhone for email - keeps downloading messages

Hi folks, hope you can help and please point me to a thread if this has been raised before.
I have a Sky email account and use Outlook 2007 on my home pc as an email client. I was checking my Sky webmail account and noticed I had not set the Sky account to archive or delete (not sure what the difference is as they both make messages disappear).
So when I then set up my Sky account on my new iPhone it started downloading all the old messages.
The main question I suppose I have is can i download my emails to both my iPhone and Outlook? If I set my Sky webmail account to archive or delete after downloading will it only download in one place?
Or alternatively would i be even better just leaving Sky email to the home pc and setting up a Gmail or similar for the iPhone?
Hope this makes sense and someone can help.

If you want to keep everything in sync, you need to set up your mail using IMAP. I'm not familiar with Sky as to whether they offer an IMAP option or its just pop, you'll have to check with them. If they don't offer an IMAP option, you can get a gmail account, set that up as IMAP and then forward your Sky emails to your gmail account.

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