Can I archive my iCloud emails?

At present my emails are synced across my devices (two iPads, two Macs and an iPhone). I find this very useful as I travel a lot. However my Mail data is now getting very large (several Gb), and I don't want to sync the historical stuff to my smaller devices, but I also don't want to trash any of it. Ideally I would like to store all my emails earlier than a certain data in my iCloud storage, be able to search it etc but have no need to sync it. This would mean that a typical device could have perhaps 500Mb of email storage, showing all recent history but not going back to the beginning of time, so to speak.
Is this possible? If you look up this topic in the Mail Help, there is a concept called 'Archive' but this is just a special mailbox within the program which presumably doesn't save any space. So if there is a solution, it probably means manipulating the email files on iCloud (perhaps via my iMac) which I would not try to do without very solid advice!

Thanks for the answer. I do sync on my two computers, but I was refering to emails that I am saving "on my Mac" since I need to have more space on the Gmail mailbox.

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Hi, thanks for your reply.
You can't transfer your iCloud email account to another ID. You could create a new iCloud account and still add your existing iCloud account as a secondary account on your phone (in Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Add Account>iCloud) but the email on that account would be restricted to fetch. (Push email is only supported in the primary account). If you want to maintain your curent iCloud email account as push, you might want to keep the current iCloud account for yourself and just set up a new iCloud account for your wife.
I'm slightly confused. My current email address is currently tied to my main iTunes Apple ID. I was going to setup a new iCloud account (that's the same as an Apple ID isn't it?) and use that for my mail. I can't use my current one as a secondary cos photo stream won't then be available.

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