I want to work with emails separately but will it still be intact in Windows Live Mail?

I have a Gmail account that also has my work account added to it. So it seems that my deleted work account emails are only held in my gmail trash folder.

When I created a WLM account with my work account and added my Gmail account, I get multiple copies of emails and only one location of deleted files (I want to save some of them just in case I need them).

SO - I think I like the WLM set up it seems to have lots of nice features, just lacks good help files. This is a current program, correct? I don't want to get it all set up only to find out it's going obsolete like OE.

 Ideally, I would like to have Gmail and work accounts totally separate, again. If I remove my work account from Gmail, will my work account be intact in WLM and saving deleted files in the deleted files folder? (I put them both on Gmail because it was the only way I could get them to work properly on my cell phone. - I want to be sure I can get my work account - *** Email address is removed for privacy *** on my cell phone, too.)

I am very afraid of losing work account emails. It would be a disaster. Sorry this is so long. I used to be able to find the answers to my questions in an index. So neat and clean. Now finding help is a whole messy process.....

Thank you to anyone who can help simplify this for me.

 

Original title: Windows Live Mail