New Install: OE folder configuration with (Hotmail) POP3

I have, with help from here, got my e-mail archives back into Outlook
Express... which is really excellent.

Now I am thinking back to how OE used to work using POP3 from my main
Hotmail e-mail account.

I do not recall precisely the OE folder structure, but I do recall how it
functioned. In Outlook Express I would have the 'Outlook Express' folder, and
then off it 'Local Folders'. Then below that I believe I had a Hotmail folder
(not sure if this was as a sub-directory off the main 'Outlook Express'
folder root, I expect so), with sub-folders that mirrored those that I would
see if I went and logged into Hotmail (Inbox, Sent, Bulk, Deleted etc).

How it worked was that I would work from OE. It would synch with Hotmail,
and messages would appear in the Hotmail subfolders where I could read them.
I would then drag and drop to Local Folders to archive or action as required.

To send messages I would either reply to what had been dragged & dropped
into the Local inbox folder or archive, or reply from within the Hotmail
folders. That created a copy in the Local Sent folder which was useful (esp.
as they did not get deleted after 30 days as in Hotmail directly).

The key advantage of this structure, was that I could (in OE) leave messages
in the Hotmail inbox after reading them. Things like E-tickets, copies of
travel insurance policies, the last reconciliation of my bank accounts. So
that even if I was travelling, I could access Hotmail, and access all of
these documents.

Right now, all of my folders are sub-folders of Local Folders in OE,
everything synchs automatically, and I appear to have no option or way to
have certain messages stay in the Hotmail Inbox.

The way it was originally configures was very useful, but I must have done
it about 4-5 years ago now. If anyone can understand what I describe, and
describe how I might recreate what I had I would be most grateful.

Thx! JW