Mail taking up too much iCloud backup space; deleting emails doesn't help

My iCloud backup said yesterday that over 500 MB was being used by the Mail portion of the backup. So I went into iCloud.com, deleted all of the mail in my Sent Mail folder, then emptied the trash entirely. When I did that, it got worse; it said that 1.2 GB of the iCloud backup was taken up by the Mail backup. That doesn't make any sense. That is actually the opposite of what was supposed to happen.
Today, it is back to saying that Mail takes up 609.4 MB of space in the backup, but there is next-to-nothing in any of my iCloud email folders, and nothing with any attachments.
What is going on?
There does not appear to be a way for me to delete the "Mail" portion of the iCloud backup. And there are almost no emails left in any of my iCloud email folders, even the Archive, Sent and Trash. How do I free up this space?

I did some quick calculating. It says:
Total Storage 5.0 GB
Available 4.2 GB
5000 MB
- 111.6 MB (the space taken up by the iPad backup)
- 38.7 MB (the space taken up by the iPhone backup)
- 3.8 MB (the space taken up by documents backups)
= 4845.9 MB
4845.9 MB
- 4200 MB (the storage space that it says I have left)
= 645.9 MB
So, 645.9 MB is curiously close in size to the 609.4 MB it says for Mail. So either it IS backing up the Mail to the iCloud, or else something else (or several somethings) that is similar in size is taking up that space, but is not accounted for in the list of things that are using my iCloud storage space.
So what are my options? I can try the buffering thing you mention, check back again on Monday and see if it is still showing a mysterious disappearance of 600-650 MB of storage space.

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