Critical : i think "Mail show n Recent Messages" just got it wrong

hi, it's been a while that i had tried the smallest setting for this "Mail > Show 25 Recent Messages" for something (i thought maybe it helped Mail to work faster) I cannot feel it exactly, but i just think of it as a good behaviour for me to read and trash unused messages right away so i can manage the mails.
But, unexpectedly, Mail App has acted strange. I was not sure about this until this morning i found 89 New Mails from my boss and only some spilled into my Mail App because "right now i got more than 25 Messages stored in my app" and yet not deleted them.
I just wanted to discuss about this because, in some ways, New Mails are essentially need to be read, and we have to store some, too. But if "Mail > 25 Recent Messages" means i will only strangled myself to whatever i wished to keep, this function has got it wrong. it surely does not mean that i do not want to read any new messages which has just come, right?
In a way, you might tell me to change it to bigger number of storage, which i already did, but i only hoped that you might find other good ways for us to "let me know that i have to clean up my inbox so Mail App can fetch new mails in for you" or something.
Here are my suggestions in a flash:
• notice us by a badge, and when we entered the mail app, notice us again that you know new mails are at the server, but because i had reached my mail limit, i have to trash something or expand the limitation.
• gray-out something old, and put something new on top, it sounds strange though.
hope this helps, thanks,

You could always just scroll to the bottom of the Inbox screen and click on the load more messages link.

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