Crazy amount of attachments in mail app on Ipad

Hi All,
I have been having a problem with thw size of my mailbox with the stock mail app on my Ipad. I curently have maybe ten (10) e-mails all with attachments in the mail app.... but the mail app is using 11gig of space? So tonight I added the attachments folder and its showing that I have some 4294967295 attachments! whilst this expalins the space taken up by the mail app. How is this possible & is there anyway I can rectify this?
The e-mail accouct is setup as POP setup to delete mail daily...
Cheers
Brendan

That's what I was thinking aswell, so I logged on to the e-mail acc via the web front and there's no way there's that many attachments/e-mails still there....
So as a test I have now deleted the e-mail acc from my ipad & the disk usage has only gone from 11.8gig to 7.8gig.
There are no other e-mail accounts on the Ipad now so i'm at a loss where this "data & attachments" disk usage is coming from?
Epesicailly since the same acc is only using 2.4 gig on my Iphone 5s (where i have  aslo conatins a Gmail acc also present in the mail app)?
Its super wierd that disk usage can still be some 7 gig + when there is no e-mail account present?

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