Mail Program Popping Thousands of Messages

All,
I have the Ipad 3 and Comcast POP account. All of a sudden the mail program is ignoring the 100 message threshold and literally downloading everything off of the Comcast server (thousands and thousands of emails). I've deleted the account and recreated it and it still exhibits the same behavior. This started happening yesterday. Any insight into how I can make the Mail program stay true and only hold 100 messages?
Thanks!

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