Deleting a mail account on iPhone completely

Deleting an IMAP mail account on iPhone doesn't actually delete it nor its messages, just hides them. In other words, if I delete te account and then re-enter all the same login details, the messages are right there without need to download. How can I truly delete the account so that I can start from scratch and download the messages from the server? Is there a way?

I know but instead of showing the 1000 most recent e-mails it skips whole weeks, going back to 2011. It's really a mystery how this happened without any of my doing. Just to reiterate: on the computer there are all the messages perfectly showing up. On the iPhone only with big gaps. If I could completely delete the account with no trace, I could re-add that account with the same login details and it would force to download the 1000 most recent messages, just like when I first set up the phone.

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