UNABLE TO PERMANENTLY DELETE MESSAGES OFF IPHONE 4

I have read that other people have this problem, but no answer seen.  You delete emails from your phone, delete the trash and then they are still there, not on the computer, just on the Iphone - every email sent since I got my phone.  How do you get rid of the old emails?  I know of other people who didn't know this was happening until I showed them.
Worrying when you think you have deleted sensitve data and it's still there.

If you are using a POP email account and have set your settings to never delete incoming mail from the server it will continue to fetch old emails since they are still on the server.  (With POP accounts, deleting email from your phone doesn't sync back to the server).  If this is the case, to permanently remove them go to your webmail account for your email provider and delete the email there so they can't be re-fetched by your phone.

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