ICloud sent mail on iPhone omitting huge gaps in time

I recently moved from Gmail to iCloud. As part of the migration, I moved over a couple thousand sent messages which originated from my Gmail account.
Have noticed that despite them appearing properly in webmail and Mail.app on my MBP, there are huge chunks of time omitted in the messages which sync to my iPhone 5 (iOS 6.1.2).
Currently syncing 50 messages. Originally, it showed the most recent one or two and then showed mail sent from my old Gmail account back in 2009-2010, but nothing more recent.
Then I did this:
1. Moved all mail to a temporary holding folder in Mail.app
2. Disabled iCloud mail on the phone
3. Moved the mail back to the Sent folder within the iCloud account in Mail.app
4. Turned on iCloud mail on the iPhone
... which resulted in a message sync including one from late 2012 and then a bunch from 2011. Nothing more recent, as would be expected.
Of note, I received a "your iCloud storage is full" automated email during the move. I only have ~500 MB of storage used on a basic 5 GB account.
Suggestions appreciated. Pretty annoying little "bug."

Still haven't been able to figure this out. Suggestions appreciated.

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