How to stop iphone 5S from downloading all my old emails

How to stop iphone 5S from downloading all my old emails? I keep deleting the "latest"old emails and older ones just keeps popping up!

Well Thank you for everyone's help.  I contacted the service provider, who uses google to support their email.  If anyone else has this problem....with google supported email here is the solution.
Go to your email account
click settings
click "settings" (again) under the settings button
click "forwarding and POP/IMAP"
under POP download click "enable POP for mail that arrives from now on"
save changes
Then go to your iphone
erase your email account
re-install your email account
now only new emails should show up on your phone, all your past emails will be saved at the server.

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