Iphone 5 - all deleted emails have reappeared in inbox. Why?

Travelling around the USA and have been deleting redundant emails from my phone and ipad. Last night, nearly 400 deleted emails have reappeared in my iphone inbox. Not in my ipad, just my iPhone 5.
Why and is this likely to keep occurring?
Wonder what I can do to prevent this?
Thanks

my wife just had this same problem develop with her iPad 2 (not with her iPhone or our iMac, all using the same email client, Comcast/Xfinity's webmail (which I dislike for lots of other reasons as well). My wife and I share the same address and the problem isn't happening on my iPhone5.
Re-booting the iPad hasn't helped and I haven't tried a reset, but that didn't work for you. Have you had any success with fixing the problem? It's very frustrating. I've posted the same question on an Xfinity forum, but have no responses yet.

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It seems that others have been hit with this issue.
I note the issue of the old emails being downloaded because the server after the upgrade thought that it was a new device.
I resolved this by deleting the old emails from the phone. (ios7.1) which did not delete from server even though as you stated imap configuration is designed to do this.
The reason that it did not delete from the server is that I set my email account on the iphone 5 to never delete from server.
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