Batch deleting mail from an account

I'm frustrated when I get a few days of mail from my account on my iPhone and I have to mark each individual piece of e-mail one by one to set them up for deletion. Am I missing something? Is there a way to click on "Edit" in mail and then tell your phone you want to mark every e-mail for deletion? If I could do that, and then simply uncheck the few that I might want to keep around, it would be wonderful. This is such a simple thing that I would think the Mail program on the phone would have this feature. Perhaps I'm just missing how to do it.
There is a way to mark all your e-mails, but that's to flag them, not delete them.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.
Jeff Brody
Silverdale, WA

It wouldn't be easy to delete by accident if you had to affirm your choice through a dialog box. That just seems like something that should be part of the software.
Is there any way to request that something like this be added to the software? Is there a place in the support community where we can request such features?
Jeff

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