Mail app storage iOS7

Since upgrading to iOS 7 my email is now taking up 700mb of storage space. Before upgrading it used very little space. Is this a bug? How can I regain that space? Thanks

I don't have an answer. With me it ranges from 1.6 GB to over 2 GB. Worse, the only way to delete old now downloaded on to my Iphone is one at a time. The "Mark All" function will not allow you to mark and delete a thousand emails. You actually have to page through and mark them one at a time. Worse still, even after spending many hours doing so, and deleting thousands of emails, and getting down to less than 50, mail still occupies 1.6 GB of my storage. Storage attributed to email actually increased from 1.5GB to 1.6 GB when I deleted most of the mail. So:
1.     Why can't I limit the number of emails are downloaded on to my phone?
2.     What is this occupied storage used for? (I've deleted my mail and my trash box) If it is not used for anything, how can I regain the space?
3.     After deleting vitually all my messages in three accounts, why does mail still occupy almost all available storage, and how can I change that?
4.     Why can't I use icloud to offload or reduce some of this storage? I'm paying for it, but I can't use it.
Is this a dirty secret? Why isn't anyone talking about this? Are mmonis and I the only ones. It prevents use of the Iphone for any other purpose. I can't afford to add apps or music, and I do not have space to download even one movie or tv show from the store. In fact, in order to upgrade I deleted apps to free up several GB of storage, but I didn't get it back.
If this cannot be fixed, I want the old operating system back.
iphone 4s ios7

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