Mail 7.0 - limit email download

I want to add an IMAP-account to Mail. Since I've used this account for many years, it contains thousands of emails and several archive folders, and I really don't want to fill up my SSD with that.
There used to be a "Don't keep copies of any messages" checkbox in Mail's account preferences, but this option was removed in OS X 10.9. There's also no way to limit synchronization to a certain time frame or specific folders.
I am aware I can exclude attachements from being downloaded, but still it's a lot of data.
The same problem exists in iOS 7: You cannot limit the email download to a certain time frame as in iOS 6.
(This actually means I cannot use Mail on my iPhone or sync Mail with iCloud if I don't want to fill up a big part of my phone/cloud space with email data)
Does anybody have solution for this, or an explanation for the removal of these features?

Found this:
I did discover that, if I drag the message into a local folder in the "On My Mac" section of Mail, then I can remove the attachment.
Message was edited by: T Conover
That's how.

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