To answer my own question, you can configure your android device, on IMAP, to 
take no action when messages are deleted on the server.

On January 16, 2015 6:56:39 AM EST, Seth H Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:
>Depends.
>
>If you're using POP3, then it stays on your local device until you
>delete it from the local device.
>
>IMAP keeps the local device in sync with the server so once deleted
>there, it should be deleted from the local device as well. I don't
>recall if there's a way to override that behavior.
>
>On January 15, 2015 5:18:46 PM EST, Ed Elkes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>Instead of installing first and then asking, i would like to know
>>beforehand if K-9 Mail saves a local copy of each received e-mail to
>>the Android phone and retains it even though it might be erased from
>>the server? Thanks.
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