When I delete e-mail on my iPhone it also deletes the e-mail on my yahoo account. How can I only delete the email from the phone?

Question

How can I delete email from my iPhone without the message being deleted from my yahoo account.

Answer 1

I found this fix. When I had a iPhone 3s, it was set up with att email as POP server. Email would stay on my phone until I deleted it. I liked it that way. In Decmeber, I upgraded to new 4s. I found that when I set up my att email, it was linked to the server?? Anything I deleted from server was deleted from phone, and visa-versa. Furthermore, I had my server setttings set such, that only about 50 emails stayed there, so emails were being deleted left and right. It was horrible!!
Here is what i did to restore to my old settings:
1. Put phone on airplane mode. This prevents it from automatically going out and setting up the inbound/outbound maile servers on its own.
2. Deleted ATT account
3. Created new ATT account using the server settings of  inbound.att.net  and outbound.att.net.  These are POP style servers, so nothing is directly linked.
4. take off airplane mode (no pun intended)
Now it's AWESOME. Just like before. My phone will load up with hundreds of emails until I choose to delete them.  I hope this helps many of you. Please pass this fix along on any other message boards.
Dave