Changing Email from POP3 to IMAP

Thanks, Chris. I am working with AOL as an ex-Verizon.net account. We have used the AOL system for a couple of years as the POP account. They now require us to remove the account and then re-establish the account to use their more secure login port. I am told that they can make the account IMAP when I re-establish the account by using the IMAP settings and ports. It is my wife's account. Mine is already set up as IMAP. I was just trying to verify the AOL tech document that states when you create the IMAP account it will only download NEW emails to the device. Therefore I understand that to say that if I go to the online AOL mail system and make all of the emails in the Inbox to be "UNREAD" then they should all be initially downloaded to the device (there are 5404 emails from several years). I would then go into the iPad mail to mark all of the emails as "read". Going forward from there, it will only download the newly received emails as normal. Does this sound correct to you as well?

Thanks. I agree and will try to get my wife to begin doing that as it will make things a lot easier to manage going forward. That is why this has become such an issue now. I am currently backing up her iPad before I do anything else and then I will just dive in and hope that my understanding of the operation is correct. I really appreciate your responses and timeliness. Take care.