IPhone 5 downloads all my old emails

This has been stressed for many years and yet Apple does nothing about it. The only solution I have came upon was to set your POP email to delete email off the server. Or, make a separate folder on the server and place all the old emails into this new folder. This is just crazy. All the new phones on the market, except for Apple, has a feature that you can actually tell the phone that you don't want to download mail more than a week old. Come on Apple, fix this as this problem goes all the way back to 2008.
At this moment, my IPhone is still downloading over 1,000 emails that I cannot delete as I'm a tax accountant and need to keep emails for as long as 3 years since my practice is paperless office. Emails are important to me and I don't delete them unless I know for sure that it has nothing to do with my business.
Well I guess I'll spend some time deleting 3 years worth of emails off my new phone.

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